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Massive Italian Festival Returns To Jersey City Massive Italian Festival Returns To Jersey City
Massive Italian Festival Returns To Jersey City A massive Italian festival more than a century old has returned to Jersey City. La Festa Italiana is running Wednesday, Aug. 10 through Sunday, Aug. 14 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., outside of the Holy Rosary Church on 344 Sixth St. The church itself was apparently the first Italian church in New Jersey, founded in 1885. "With dozens of church societies in Holy Rosary the most prominent became the Maria SS. Dell’Assunta Society, founded in 1902," La Festa Italiana's website reads.  "Many members of this society herald from Morrone Del Sannio in the Campobasso Section of Italy. It was …

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by Cecilia Levine