Giuseppe Petrelli  (1876–1957) was born in 1876 Noepoli, Basilicata, Italy and died in Belleville, New Jersey, U.S.A. He was an early Italian-American Pentecostal missionary, journalist, prolific writer, theologian, and itinerant Bible expositor. Born to an affluent Roman Catholic family, Petrelli became a lay counsel in his late teens while studying Law and contributing to the Corriere di Napoli. Sometime after converting at a Baptist church, he had a crisis of conscience. He quit his legal practice and migrated to N…