Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The task of the missionary is to go where there is need, to be loved, but not to become necessary." This was James Anthony Walsh’s motto, a member, now deceased, of the Society of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and became Bishop of China.
The Congregation is celebrating its 100 years of foundation. Its history dates back to June 29, 1911, when during the festivities in honor of St. Peter and St. Paul, Pope Pius X gave permission to the priests James Anthony Walsh and Thomas Frederick Price to found a seminary for the missions in the United States of America.
In 1912 the house of formation in the town of Ossining was opened, in New York, and was baptized as Maryknoll, which means "hill of Mary." Today the Congregation is present in countries such as Russia, Uganda, Myanmar, Jamaica and Peru.
Thanks to several local sources of Fides in Peru, we learn about the celebrations of 100 years of the founding of the Congregation and the arrival of PadreThomas Garrity, a missionary who is well known and has left a huge amount of deeds both in the Peruvian capital and its suburbs. For this occasion a photographic exhibition has been set up, which will be inaugurated on Saturday, September 3, in the parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where you can walk through the different stages of the parish community of the Maryknoll priests and the various works built in Peru.
The Congregation of Maryknoll is present in several places in the peruvianee Andes, it has collaborated in the formation and the establishment of several radio stations in the highlands of this Latin American country. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 03/09/2011)
