San Rocco Festival 2013 with WBVP/WMBA Pontiac van shown above.
Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published July 31, 2023 7:53 A.M.
(Aliquippa, PA) At 8 a.m. sharp the banner will be received at foundation member Jean Rosati’s home at 1715 Polk/Street. Italian music will be played by the San Rocco Foundation Band and refreshments will be provided by the foundation. Many of the foundation’s current members are descendants of original foundation members, when it got started in 1925 according to Eugene Frioni, foundation president.
The group proceeds with the banner down to Sheffield Avenue behind the former St. Titus school where the band will line up along with families with banners and march the short distance to St. Titus Church. At 8:45 a.m. they will meet up with the statue of San Rocco and its carriers to enter the church.
Following mass, the Foundation participants return to Jean Rosati’s house to line up for annual procession, proceeding down Filmore Street, down Grand Avenues, they will cross Kennedy Boulevard, turning left onto 20th Street to Main Street turning right into the Tatlovich Funeral Home parking lot, Monsignor Ron Cellini will give the final blessing at that time.
Festivities will be held at the St. Francis Cabrini Church hall in Center Township in the evening to celebrate San Rocco, and the traditional doll dance will be featured.