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Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center

Knights to create pilgrimage center in honor of their founder who is to be beatified on Oct. 31, 2020 8/5/2020 Father Michael J. McGivney Supreme Knight Carl Anderson announced the creation of a new pilgrimage destination named for the Order’s founder during his annual report. The Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center will be located at the current Knights of Columbus Museum in New Haven, Connecticut. Fr. McGivney, a priest in the St. Mary’s Parish in New Haven, founded the Knights of Columbus 138 years ago to enable Catholic men to support one another and their families with spiritual and temporal…

Fr. McGivney inspires Outreach Programs in Bohol

Brothers from Knights of Columbus Immaculate Concepcion Council 14782 in Taglibalaran, Bohol carry out their monthly feeding program for the 142 students of  Montaña Primary School (MPS),  Baclayon, Bohol. TAGBILARAN, BOHOL—Father Michael J. McGivney continues to motivate the members of a fraternal organization he organized more than a hundred years ago to do charitable work to people in need. In the Diocese of Tagbilaran in Bohol, one of the local councils of the Knights of Columbus sustains a monthly feeding program for primary schools in remote and poor areas. “Father McGivney founded Knights of Columbus to protect the Catholic fathers…

Remembering Father McGivney 127 years later

MORE than a hundred years ago, a priest who would translate faith into action was born. The Knights of Columbus founder Father Michael McGivney was born on August 12, 1852 to Irish immigrants Patrick and Mary McGivney in Waterbury, Connecticut in a community that was dominantly Protestant and anti-Catholic. The eldest child, Michael experienced pain and hardship at a young age after six of his 12 siblings died in infancy and he was forced to work at a brass factory to help with his family’s finances. Interestingly, it was from his situation of poverty where he answered the call to…

Father McGivney Office – PH visits hospitals in Manila

University of Santo Tomas Hospital chaplain Fr. Arturo Pestin with the Pastoral Care Service Team received Fr. McGivney prayer cards and newsletters on July 21, 2017. The staff Father McGivney Office – Philippines (FMO-PH) is visiting hospitals in Manila in order to encourage patients to pray for miraculous healing through the intercession of Knights of Columbus founder Father Michael McGivney. Father McGivney prayer cards and newsletters were given at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital on July 21 to its chaplain, Fr. Arturo Pestin, who is also a Knights of Columbus member. Pestin said that the materials will be distributed…