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About Help Contact login Rev Giovanni Rossi Title: Rev First Name: Giovanni Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Rossi Order: Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Country of Birth: Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: Place of Death: Country of Death: Date of Burial: Place of Burial: Country of Burial: Find A Grave URL: FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Shipping. Arrivals, The Brisbane Courier, 1 March 1871, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1309789: February 28.-Storm King, ship (Black Ball line), 1148 tons, Captain G. Holden, from London. Passengers: Saloon- [...] Rev. Giralmo Pieranto, Rev. Guiseppe Romani, Rev. Mazareno Clemontoni, Rev. Giralmo Davido, Rev. Giovani Rossi, Rev. Benidetto Surtchindo, Rev. Constantine Rossolini, Rev. Francissus Kalrehan, [...]. Second saloon-Rev. Giocomo Natali, [...], Rienzi Cosei, Giovani Delgobbe, Gucio Cervini [...] --- Shipping Intelligence. Arrivals, Ipswich Observer and West Moreton Advocate, 15 July 1871, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article285543034: [...] July 13.—Tinonee, A.S.N Co.’s ss., 265 tons, Captain W. Hill, from Rockhampton. Passengers: Rev. Father Rossy, Mr. D. Little, and 12 in the sterrage. --- Denis M. Long, Pioneer and Early Priests, Archdiocese of Brisbane, Deceased or retired by 1929, 2021, p 93: Italian Priests who did not stay in Brisbane Historian, Patrick O’Farrell, writes: As to James Quinn’s 1870 recruitment, he had to settle for European priests from France, Italy and Germany. They were something of a mixed bag, especially the sixteen Italians, some being what Murray called ‘desperate vagabonds’, others being interested in what money they could make, many affronted by the contrast between the rough demands of the colonial church and the way of life they were used to in Italy. They gave Quinn trouble enough. By 1872 a dozen of them were claiming that they were starving in the Brisbane diocese, and regaling Rome with highly uncomplimentary accounts of Quinn and all his works.(1) [...] Fr Giovanni Rossi Fr Rossi, like Fathers Natali and Cervini, is listed as one of the Italian priests arriving in Brisbane on the 28 February 1871 aboard the Storm King. He is not mentioned in Sr Anne McLay’s life of Bishop Quinn or in any newspaper reports. The only reference to him is in Pugh’s Almanac of 1872. Footnotes 1. Patrick O’Farrell, The Catholic Church and Community - An Australian History, 1985, p. 135.

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Shipping. Arrivals, The Brisbane Courier, 1 March 1871, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1309789:

February 28.-Storm King, ship (Black Ball line), 1148 tons, Captain G. Holden, from London. Passengers: Saloon- [...] Rev. Giralmo Pieranto, Rev. Guiseppe Romani, Rev. Mazareno Clemontoni, Rev. Giralmo Davido, Rev. Giovani Rossi, Rev. Benidetto Surtchindo, Rev. Constantine Rossolini, Rev. Francissus Kalrehan, [...]. Second saloon-Rev. Giocomo Natali, [...], Rienzi Cosei, Giovani Delgobbe, Gucio Cervini [...]

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Shipping Intelligence. Arrivals, Ipswich Observer and West Moreton Advocate, 15 July 1871, p 2, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article285543034:

[...] July 13.—Tinonee, A.S.N Co.’s ss., 265 tons, Captain W. Hill, from Rockhampton. Passengers: Rev. Father Rossy, Mr. D. Little, and 12 in the sterrage.

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Denis M. Long, Pioneer and Early Priests, Archdiocese of Brisbane, Deceased or retired by 1929, 2021, p 93:
Italian Priests who did not stay in Brisbane

Historian, Patrick O’Farrell, writes:
As to James Quinn’s 1870 recruitment, he had to settle for European priests from France, Italy and Germany. They were something of a mixed bag, especially the sixteen Italians, some being what Murray called ‘desperate vagabonds’, others being interested in what money they could make, many affronted by the contrast between the rough demands of the colonial church and the way of life they were used to in Italy. They gave Quinn trouble enough. By 1872 a dozen of them were claiming that they were starving in the Brisbane diocese, and regaling Rome with highly uncomplimentary accounts of Quinn and all his works.(1) [...]

Fr Giovanni Rossi

Fr Rossi, like Fathers Natali and Cervini, is listed as one of the Italian priests arriving in Brisbane on the 28 February 1871 aboard the Storm King. He is not mentioned in Sr Anne McLay’s life of Bishop Quinn or in any newspaper reports. The only reference to him is in Pugh’s Almanac of 1872.

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1. Patrick O’Farrell, The Catholic Church and Community - An Australian History, 1985, p. 135.

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