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The above photo shows students from St. Leonard\u2019s School in Boston\u2019s North End in 1914. Founded by the Franciscans in 1873 to meet the needs of a growing Italian population, St. Leonard\u2019s was the first Italian parish in New England. (The first Italian parish in the United States was St. Mary Magdalen da Pazzi in Philadelphia. New York got its first in 1866, St. Anthony of Padua in Manhattan.) Italian immigration began to escalate in the 1880\u2019s and continued into the 1920\u2019s. Altogether about four million people emigrated to America during that time. Most of them settled in the big cities, forming communities that came to be known as \u201clittle Italies.\u201d They both transformed America and were transformed by America. 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