1920: St. Mary’s Church, birthplace of the Knights of Columbus

Throwback Thursday

About the time of this photograph of St. Mary’s Church interior, the Knights of Columbus published The Knights of Columbus in Peace and War. The 1920 book was advertised as the “first and only official work to deal with the history of the organization and its … activities.”

One hundred years later, a new history of the Knights is being published, The Knights of Columbus: An Illustrated History. The 296-page, 138-year history has more than 300 color pictures with text telling, and showing, the Knights’ story of faith in action.

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