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Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920) [1] was a Palermitan child who died of pneumonia, resulting from the Spanish flu, [2] one week before her second birthday. Rosalia's father, Mario Lombardo, grieving her death, asked Alfredo Salafia, an embalmer, to preserve her remains. [3] Sometimes called " Sleeping Beauty ", [citation ...
Alfredo Salafia. Alfredo Salafia (November 7, 1869 – January 31, 1933) was a Sicilian embalmer and taxidermist of the 1900s. In December 1920, he embalmed a little girl, Rosalia Lombardo, in Palermo, Sicily at her father's request. She currently lies in a glass topped, sealed coffin in Palermo's Capuchin friary catacombs ( Catacombe dei ...
Rosalia Lombardo, who died in 1920, as she appeared in 1982. In 1871 Brother Riccardo was the last friar interred in the catacombs, but other famous people were interred after that. The catacombs were officially closed in 1880 but tourists continued to visit. The last burials are from the 1920s and 1930s.
Cleveland crime family. The Cleveland crime family, also known as the Scalish crime family or the Cleveland Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Cleveland, Ohio, and throughout the Greater Cleveland area. The organization formed during the 1900s, and early leadership turned over frequently due to a series of power grabs and ...
Rosalia Vila Tobella was born in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia, in 1992, although she was raised in Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Baix Llobregat. [19] Born in a Catalan-speaking family with no artistic background, she is the youngest daughter of María Pilar Tobella Aguilera, a businesswoman of Catalan descent who runs Suprametal, SA, a family company specialising in metalworks founded by ...
Leo Luke of Corleone (815–915), monk and saint. Joseph the Hymnographer (816–886), monk and saint. Elias of Enna (822 or 823–903), monk and saint. Symeon of Trier (980/990–1035), monk and saint. Filarete of Calabria (c. 1020–1070), monk and saint. John Theristus (1049–1129), monk and saint. Rosalia of Palermo (1130–1166), hermit ...
Federico Lombardi. History. Priestly ordination. Date. 1972. Federico Lombardi SJ (born 29 August 1942) is an Italian Catholic priest and the former director of the Holy See Press Office. He succeeded Joaquín Navarro-Valls and was succeeded by Greg Burke. Lombardi also serves as the postulator for the sainthood cause of Fr. Bernardo Mattio.
1924–1977. Musical artist. Gaetano Alberto " Guy " Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) [ 2 ] was a Canadian and American bandleader, violinist, and hydroplane racer whose unique "sweet jazz" style remained popular with audiences for nearly five decades. Lombardo formed the Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert and ...