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Home>> People and Communities>> Ethnocultural Communities>> Alberta's Italian Community>> Religious Life |
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Religious Life | |||
The church blesses all rites of passage in life—marriage, birth, death, and feast days give shape to the seasons. All hold both religious and secular significance. Because in the mining communities, there were no Italian parishes, Italians worshipped in the local Catholic church and a number of them developed close ties with missionaries such as the Oblates of Mary Immaculate who came from Europe and some of whom spoke Italian.
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