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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Spiritual Autobiography of Luigi Turco |
| Author | Turco, Luigi; Turco, Lewis |
| Date | 1938-1968 |
| Document Type | Personal Account |
| Reference | IHRC2622 |
| Library / Archive | Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota |
| Collection Name | Turco, Luigi Papers |
| Description | Autobiography of Luigi Turco, a Sicilian immigrant in the US, which focuses heavily on religion. Besides recounting his religious conversion, this memoir touches on his early days in Massachusetts and a failed romance. |
| Biographical Note / History | Rev. Luigi Turco (b.1890) was born in Riesi, Italy. He came to the United States in 1913, worked in shoe factories in Boston and Wakefield, Massachusetts, and in 1915 converted to the Italian Baptist Church. He attended Colgate Theological Seminary (Brooklyn, N.Y.), and served as pastor of Italian Baptist Churches in Passaic (New Jersey), Buffalo (New York), and Meriden (Connecticut). Having read the works of Thomas Troward and Earnest Holmes, Turco became involved in the 1950s in the New Thought movement, particularly Divine Science and Religious Science. He intended to start a church in Meriden based on New Thought principles. |
| Theme(s) | Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations |
| Country (from) | Italy |
| Country (to) | United States of America |
| Places | Riesi, Sicily, Italy; Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States |
| Ports | Boston, Massachusetts, New York, United States |
| Nationality | Italian; European |
| Keywords | immigration, imemigrant, religion, poetry, crime, Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Baptist, military service, army, debt, gambling, family, religious conversion, clergy, education |
| Additional Information | Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from the Immigration History Research Center Archives catalogue. |
| Catalogue Link | Immigration History Research Center Archives Catalogue |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | Reproduced by kind permission of Professor Lewis Turco. |
