Posted October 5, 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. (Video by Sarah Webb)