I have sent an email to Rome via the Scalabrinian website......without an answer.
The Chicago Archdiocese will not provide any help with my search.
Snail mail will be sent to the Scalabrinians, but in the meantime, I'm posting my search here.
In approx 1950, my grandmother had a chalice made as a memorial and sent it to a family friend (priest) in Milan, Italy. My 94 year old Aunt would be at peace knowing where this chalice inscribed in her Father's memory happens to be.
It's a long shot but I've told her I'd do my best to help find it.
Father Costante (Charles) Biancotti came to the US in 1920 (March 27, 1920), age 39, in the company of other priests and was headed to a Roosevelt Street Mission in New York City . I cannot find earlier arrival records though the 1920 manifest indicates he had entered the US before. At some point he was assigned to Chicago and worked at Holy Guardian Angel Mission in Chicago's Taylor and Halsted neighborhood. I have a photo of him with my (late)Aunts and Mother (probably around 1924?); I have the letters he wrote from Italy. Despite a denial from Chicago Archdiocesean people that he was ever there, I know differently.
A now-deceased Aunt with whom he corresponded believed he returned to Italy before or around 1930. There, he was assigned to teaching at a girl's school and was living with his sister (Virginia) in Milan.
Of course, he would have died quite some time ago.
I'd love to locate the gift he received in my Grandfather's memory, if only to know where it is for my Aunt's sake. Perhaps finding someone who is distantly related (there are a few names in the Italian white pages in Milan)
would be a start?? I thought the order (Missionaries of St.Charles Borromeo) was a more reasonable place to begin, but it has not turned out to be the case.
Thank you, everyone!
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