The Marinelli family first started the bell foundry nearly 1,000 years ago in the Apennine hills of Italy, in the Kingdom of Naples.

The village of Agnone, a small Italian town of 5,200 inhabitants in the province of Isernia in Molise, is where the foundry is now located.

[5] The newest addition started service on Easter 2004, replacing the missing bell for the first time in 60 years.

In 1961, The foundry cast a special bell to commemorate the "100th anniversary of Italy's founding as a united country."

Pope John Paul II was presented the official Jubilee Bell in 2000 that is hung in St. Peter's Square.