Who was Fr. Michael McGivney, and what did he do that over 1 million people remember?

Answer 1

Founder of the Knights of Columbus. Which is an organization that developed life insurance for immigrant Catholic men who worked in dire circumstances. Many died and left their families in desperate poverty. Fr. McGivney develop a way for the community to care for widows and orphaned children.
Great man.

Answer 2

Father Michael J. McGivney (12 August 1852 - 14 August 1890) was a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus.

The Order of the Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded in the United States in 1882, it is named in honor of Christopher Columbus and dedicated to the principles of Charity, Unity, Fraternity, and Patriotism. There are more than 1.7 million members in 14,000 councils, with nearly 200 councils on college campuses. Membership is limited to practical Catholic men aged 18 or older.

Father McGivney entered St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland in 1873, he had to leave the seminary and return home to help finish raising his siblings due to the death of his father. He later returned to the seminary and was ordained a priest on 22 December 1877 by Archbishop James Gibbons at the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary .

On 2 February 1882, while an assistant pastor at Saint Mary's Church in New Haven, Connecticut, McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus with a small group of parishioners. McGivney died from tuberculosis on the eve of the Assumption in 1890, when he was only thirty-eight years old.

The order now has over 1.7 million member families and thirteen thousand councils. During the 2004-2005 fraternal year, $134 million dollars and 68 million manhours were donated to charity by the order.

Answer 3

He was the founder of the Knights of Columbus. Which now has about 2 million members.

Answer 4

Founded the Knights of Columbus

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