Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
...scuss a theme connected to the Eucharist. The theme of the 41st IEC was “The Eucharist and the Hungers of the Human Family” with the goal of examining both physical and spiritual hunger. The history of the Eucharistic Congress dates to 1881, when a one-day congress was held in Lille,
Day of Great Joy: Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia
...St. John Fournier.[2] The Sisters of St. Joseph had come to St. Louis from France in 1836 to teach at a school for the deaf and blind.[3] As the order was mainly focused on education, the sisters opened their first school in the Diocese of Philadelphia in Pottstown the following
Archbishop John Carroll
...d, Carroll would come to rely on Father Ferdinand Farmer, S.J. as his main contact in Philadelphia. Farmer, who at the time administered to Catholics in the city as well as most of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, would be made Carroll’s vicar-general when Carroll was made bishop. [6] Vatican
Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.
...: Mercer and Adeline. After forty-seven days at sea and a stop in southern France, the Connellys final reached Rome in February 1836. They quickly integrated into local society and were frequent visitors of the influential Borghese family and Englishman John Talbot, the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, who became Pierce’s