By Susan Canfora | Staff Reporter | Jan 9, 2025 Andy Maggio — an Ocean View octogenarian who founded a ministry that has distributed more than 400,000 rosaries and scapulars — has been named Distinguished Citizen of the Year by the Ocean City (Md.) Sons & Daughters of Italy. “It was such a surprise. I had no idea. My fiancée, Lil, and I were sitting there and talking to our guests at our table, and they started talking about this man who ships rosaries around the world. Every year they pick a citizen of the year, and it was me....

By Susan Canfora | Staff Reporter Nov 23, 2023   Four years after Ocean View resident Andrew Maggio unwittingly started a ministry to distribute rosaries and scapulars — and promised a chaplain at a veterans’ hospital, where his brother-in-law lay dying, that he would provide them to patients — he has provided an impressive number of them: more than 168,000. At 86 years old, Maggio is continuing the ministry — nationwide and in other countries, including the Ukraine — with the help of volunteers from St. Ann Catholic Church in Bethany Beach, with one of his goals being putting a rosary...

Former Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner Andrew Maggio and his fiancé, Lillian Miller, have distributed 85,000 scapular kits. They started with 150 VA hospitals around the country. (Courtesy of Maggio family) Man spreads Marian devotion around the country September 28, 2022By Sharon Crews HareSpecial to the Catholic ReviewFiled Under: Feature, Local News, News   A ministry that has touched thousands and spread Marian devotion around the country began humbly when Andrew Maggio reached out to offer love and prayers to his brother-in-law, Herb, who lay dying in a VA hospital in Baltimore. Unable to visit in person because he now lives in Delaware, Maggio...

In the News - Andy Maggio featured in Coastal Point News, Delaware. A great article by Susan Canfora showcasing the great work of Andy and his organization, Rosaries and Scapulars Initiative.   Coastal Point Article By Susan Canfora | Staff Reporter  Jul 14, 2022     When Andrew Maggio, a man of faith, made a phone call, hoping to bless his sick brother-in-law, he never expected to begin a ministry of providing rosaries and scapulars by the thousands. “I had no idea it would grow like this. I never went to Catholic school, except for first grade. I always went to church. It just happened,”...