Founded by Reverend Pietro Maschi in 1907
This is from the brochure
There was a terrible disaster in Framingham, in July, 1906. The tragic work of digging out the victims of the disaster, spread thru the area, and one of the first volunteers was Rev. Maschi, who was attached to Sacred Heart Church in the North End, of Boston. Rev. Maschi had been in Framingham on many occasions visiting relatives, so he knew the area.
When the Amsden building fell he was notified by phone, arriving at the still smoking ruins as a victim was being carried out, Father Maschi bent over the broken body of the victim , for the last rites.
"His face paled as he looked down and discovered the victim was his own brother, Romualdo Maschi, a construction worker and the father of a young family."
From that moment on Father Maschi became determined to bring an Italian Mission Church to Framingham, and that is how we have a Mission Church in Framingham.
From the Framinghan Tribune, May 29, 1902
"Andrew Lepardo, foreman of the construction gang for the Westboro, Hopkinton Street Railway Company leased a house on Winter Street to house 100 Italian laborers, who arrived to the work..."
"The Padrone's were promising jobs and "streets paved with gold."
The Framingham Tribune, March 5, 1903
"An Italian working on the Weston Aquaduct was kicked in the forehead by a mule and died. He had been working there for a short while, so was known only by a number, thus it was difficult to ascertain his name...."
Tid bits from a paper I did on The History of the Social Development of the Italian Immigrant in Framingham, Mass., at Framinghan State College, 1967, Madlyn Pizzeri ( Fox) Fafard
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