Parish named for Founder of K of C - July 23, 2023

Several Council members have been reading the book titled Parish Priest, Father Michael McGivney, and American Catholicism and discussing its book club style at Council meetings. The book is a historical account of Fr. McGivney’s life and that of immigrant Catholics in New England in the late 1800’s. Fr. McGivney was assigned to St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Connecticut where he founded the Knights of Columbus with 9 other men in the basement of that church in 1882. That parish has been known as St. Mary’s until this month when the Archdiocese of Hartford merged it with 7 other parishes in New Haven into one unified parish named Blessed Michael McGivney Parish, in honor of the founder of the K of C. The history of our Founder is still being written!