{"id":6334,"date":"2023-05-30T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2023-05-30T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:32:19","slug":"sister-sally-liota-a-guardian-angel-of-pier-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/30\/sister-sally-liota-a-guardian-angel-of-pier-21\/","title":{"rendered":"SISTER SALLY LIOTA: A GUARDIAN ANGEL OF PIER 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transformations Canada –<\/em><\/strong> Salvatrice Liota was born on July 10, 1920 in Hamilton, Ontario. Her parents were recent Italian immigrants, who came to Canada after disembarking in New York. She graduated from Cathedral High School in Hamilton, studied business education and worked as a supervisor in a factory where radios were made. <\/p>

In 1948, she joined the Sisters of Service, a Catholic religious order. After some social work training, she was sent to work at the port of Montreal to interpret for and assist newly arriving immigrants.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>

\u201cI believe that the Holy Spirit directed me to a community founded for the spiritual and temporal welfare of immigrants. I always had a spirit of concern for the new Canadians before I became a sister; that spark developed into a flame as I personally became more and more involved with immigrants.\u201d<\/em><\/p>

Sister Sally was greatly influenced by stories of the experiences of her own parents\u2019 difficult journey to Canada.<\/p>

\u201cWith them [my parents] I felt the heartbreaking severance of home ties, their sad farewell to parents whom they were never going to see again, the uprooting from the sunny shores of Italy to which they would never return. With them I felt too, the anxiety and apprehension of facing the complicated ordeal of disembarkation, of immigration procedures, custom inspection and the weary train trip from New York to Hamilton.\u201d<\/em><\/p>