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He was born in Rome, Italy, in 1875, and studied at the Art Institute of Saint Michele in Rome.
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Gonippo Raggi
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He came to the United States in 1904 at the invitation of Papal Marquis Martin Maloney to supervise the decoration of Saint Catherine’s Memorial Church in Spring Lake, New Jersey. Raggi drew the attention of Review Thomas J. Walsh, then Bishop of Trenton. When Walsh became Bishop of Newark, he encouraged Raggi to continue his work in the Newark diocese.
Raggi was internationally acclaimed as a portraitist and ecclesiastical artist. and supervised the decoration of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Newark.
He died in 1959. Several of the buildings containing Raggi"s murals have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. All of Raggi"s paintings done before 1915 were cataloged by the Smithsonian Institution.
Other work by Raggi is cataloged by the Boston Public Library, Department of Fine Arts. Basilica of Saint Josaphat, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Saint Patrick Pro Cathedral, Newark, New Jersey
Saint Catherine Memorial Church, Spring Lake, New Jersey
Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark, New Jersey
Saint Lucy"s Church, Newark, New Jersey
Immaculate Conception Seminary Chapel, Darlington, New Jersey
Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Newark, New Jersey
Saint Mary of Mount Virgin Church, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Villa Walsh Convent Chapel, Morristown, New Jersey
Notre Dame Church, Southbridge, Massachusetts
Liberal Arts Building and Rotunda at Marywood College, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Chapel, Saint John Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts
Our Lady of Victory Basilica, Lackawanna, New New York
