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…
