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On August 17, 1991, Holy Cross ordained its first Ugandan priest, Fr. Fulgens Katende. Five Holy Cross Brother's and one priest died in the genocide of 1994. In Bugembe and Wanyange, two villages of the Jinja Diocese, a primary school and secondary were opened: Holy Cross Primary and Holy Cross Lakeview Secondary respectively.
Thomas J. O'Hara (born March 16, 1949) served as Provincial Superior of the U.S. Province of Priests and Brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross from his election to the position on June 15, 2012 (The Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Patron of Holy Cross Priests) until the election of Father Bill Lies on June 14, 2018.
The primary feast of the Crosiers, the Exaltation of the Cross, reflects a spirituality focused on the triumphal cross of Christ. [7] Crosiers believe the resurrection of Jesus guarantees that in suffering and pain, there is hope and healing. Because of this, Crosiers emphasize the glorious, or triumphant, cross.
Basil Moreau, C.S.C. (February 11, 1799 – January 20, 1873) was the French priest who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross from which two additional congregations were founded, namely the Marianites of Holy Cross and the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Moreau was beatified on September 15, 2007 in Le Mans, France.
Congregation of Holy Cross (C.S.C.), the priests and brothers of Holy Cross. The sisters of the original congregation were broken off and made independent by Rome in 1856. Subsequently, the Holy Cross sisters became three independent communities of sisters, namely: The Marianites of Holy Cross (M.S.C.) (Le Mans, France)
As the congregation grew throughout the 1840s and early 1850s in the United States and Canada, Fr. Moreau sent groups of priests, brothers and sisters to work together and support each other's mission within the Family of Holy Cross.
April 18, 1949: “St. Joseph’s farm, at Cleveland and Currant roads, is a beehive of activity as the Brothers of Holy Cross produce tons of milk, fruit, and other farm crops on their 1,700 ...
He remained in this position for about fourteen month, but then desired to join Basil Moreau's novel organization, the Congregation of Holy Cross (born out of the merger of Moreau's auxiliary priests and Jacques-Francois Dujarié's Brothers of Saint Joseph). With the bishop's permission, he joined the group and underwent a brief novitiate.