The Italians of Cleveland

TH E ITAL I ANS O F CL EVELAN D
St. Marion
Knights of St. John
Still another Roman Catholic church, St. Marion, has more recently
been established at -Cedar Avenue and vVoodhill Road, at present in
charge of Rev. Ralph C. Idone.
Protestant
There are four Protestant Italian Missions in the city, all of which
owe their early impetus, if not, indeed, their inception to the untiring
lahors of Rev. Pietro E. Monnet, a Waldensian minister reared in the
Angrugn:l Valley, at the foot of the Alps, who has spent twenty years
working among his people in thi city. His Church, t. John's Beckwith,
now located at Murray Hill Road and Paul Avenue, was originally
a mis ion of the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, in charge of
Giu eppe Zottarelli, on Euclid Avenue opposite Lakeview cemetery.
Mr. MOl1l1et took charge of the work in 1905, and the next year the
mis ion wa taken vcr by the Second Presbyterian Church and moved
to its pre ent location, where at once was erected the attractive, characteristic
brick church, which bears the name of Mr. terling Beckwith,
an elder of Second Church, out of whose bequest the building was
erected. Here for fifteen year t. John" Church, though with a membership
today of only one hundred and forty-nine, has made itself an
asset t the community of incalculable value, and 11'. Monnet is loved
and sought out by Prote tant and Catholics alike for coun el and help.
The "Church of the avionr," a branch · of t. John's Beckwith, is a
Pre byterian Mis ion occupying a comfortable brick building on Kipling
Avenue at Five Point , Collinwood. It was initiated in 1916 by
::\11'. Monnet, many of who e congregation had moved to this point,
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