Posted September 29, 2016

Priests, bishops and seminarians of the Congregation of the Mission celebrated a Mass with religious and lay faithful at the Miraculous Medal Shrine Sept. 24. The first 13 Vincentian priests arrived in America in 1813, and began their ministry in Philadelphia, especially in Germantown, in 1841. Read about the Mass and the congregation’s past and present, here. (Photos by Sarah Webb)

  • Vincentian priests process into the Miraculous Medal Shrine in Germantown Sept. 24 for a Mass observing their order’s 200 years of service in the United States.

  • Vincentian Father Carl Pieber, executive director of the Miraculous Medal Shrine in Germantown, celebrates with his Vincentian confreres their 200 years’ service in America Sept. 24 at the shrine. (Sarah Webb)

  • Vincentian Bishops David O’Connell (right) of Trenton and Alfonso Cabezas Aristizabal, in residence in Brooklyn, celebrate their congregation’s anniversary Mass.

  • Father Robert Maloney, who was the Vincentian Superior General from 1992 to 2004, celebrates mass with his brother vincentian priests.

  • Vincentian seminarians attend the Mass Sept. 24, observing their order’s anniversary in America.

  • Trenton Bishop David O’Connell, C.M., celebrates the Eucharist at the Sept. 24 Mass at the Miraculous Medal Shrine.

  • Bishop Cabezas distributes holy Communion.