Editing Lawrence, Massachusetts (section)

=====Italians=====
Some Italian immigrants celebrated Mass in the basement chapel of the largely Irish St. Laurence O'Toole Parish Church, at the intersection of Essex Street and Union Street. When St. Laurence O'Toole Parish had collected sufficient funds to build a new church in 1905 at the nearby intersection of East Haverhill Street and Newbery Street, the Italian population formed Holy Rosary Parish.<ref name="Skulski"/> Immigrants from [[Lentini]] (a ''comune'' in the Sicilian [[the province of Syracuse]]) and from the Sicilian province of [[Catania]] maintained a particular devotion to three Catholic martyrs, [[Alphius, Philadelphus, and Cyrinus|Saint Alfio, Saint Filadelfo and Saint Cirino]], and in 1923 began celebrating a procession on their feast day.<ref>[http://www.centamore.it/TreSanti/WithTrueFaith_Testo.asp Festa of Saints Alfio, Filadelfo, and Cirino<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Although most of the participants live in neighboring towns, the Feast of Three Saints festival continues in Lawrence today.  Many of the Italians who lived in the Newbury Street area had immigrated from [[Trecastagni]], [[Viagrande]], [[Acireale]], and [[Nicolosi]], Italy.