A gallery of images from the first in-person convention in three years
Future Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson was not a member of the Knights of Columbus, but he did participate in events at Knights of Columbus recreation huts during WWI. This instance took place sometime in 1918. (Columbiad, 1918)
Future Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson was not a member of the Knights of Columbus, but he did participate in events at Knights of Columbus recreation huts during WWI. This instance took place sometime in 1918. (Columbiad, 1918)
Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly addresses Knights of Columbus leaders at the Omni Hotel in New Haven, Conn., during the afternoon business session of the 2022 Organizational Meeting of State Deputies, June 11. All photos by Tamino Petelinšek
Warriors to Lourdes pilgrims march on the Rosary Esplanade, in front of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, toward Mass at St. Joseph’s Chapel May 12. (All photos by Tamino Petelinšek)
Headdress for the Cordillera Braves, a component of the Philippine Knights of Columbus centered in the northern Luzon section. Gift: Knights of Columbus of the Philippines
Warriors to Lourdes pilgrims march past the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes May 18, 2019, on their way to Mass at the Grotto. (Tamino Petelinšek)
Sister Eliasza, a Sister of Our Lady of Mercy from Kraków serving at the Knights of Columbus Mercy Center in Hrebenne, Poland, helps a young refugee pick out a rosary on March 17. The Knights of Columbus collaborated with Goya Foods to help distribute more than 15,000 rosaries to refugees in Poland and people displaced in Ukraine. (Photo by Jakub Pabis)
Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly traveled to St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, Md., April 26, to present the charter to the newly established Blessed Michael McGivney Council 17759, during Solemn Vespers led by Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William Lori. Michael McGivney attended the seminary (in its previous location on Paca Street in downtown Baltimore) from 1873-1876 prior to his ordination by Baltimore Archbishop (later Cardinal) James Gibbons in 1877.
Pioneered in the 1930s, community blood-drives grew quickly. Local councils often partnered with the American Red Cross or a local hospital. Freeport, N.Y., 1940-1949 approximate.
(Knights of Columbus Multimedia Archives)
The Open Door Doctrine was a prize-winning entry in the Knights' Historical Commission's annual contest for a study in American history based on original research. The Commission was established in the 1920s in response to a concern for false historical respresentations.
(Knights of Columbus Multimedia Archives)
The Knight have long provided spiritual and substantive support to members of the military.
Knights in El Paso, Texas, created a recreation center for American soldiers of the 1916 Mexican Expedition.
(Credit: U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center. Photographer: W.H. Horne Co., El Paso, Tex.)
“Sunday morning, August 29, we attended a special Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict (XV) in the Vatican Gardens at 7.30 a.m. All the Knights received Communion from His Holiness,” wrote brother Knight Patrick H. Kelly of Philadelphia who summarized the pilgrim-Knights’ experience in the Knights of Columbus Pilgrimage – 1920. The spiritual and patriotic pilgrimage made stops also at sites significant to Catholicism and the European war, in Paris, Reims, Verdun, Lourdes and elsewhere.
(Knights of Columbus Multimedia Archives / Felici)
The Knights' support to refugees started nearly a hundred years ago. In Rochester, N.Y., Knights collected "a mountain of clothing" for Near East -- Armenian Christian -- refugees in 1923.
(Courtesy Near East Relief Historical Society)