Knights of Columbus sets 133rd
anniversary celebration
PUTNAM — July 20 everyone is invited to celebrate the 133rd anniversary of Cargill Council 64, Knights of Columbus. The celebration will begin at 9 a.m. with a public, regular Sunday Mass at St. Mary Church of the Visitation.
This will be followed immediately, shortly before 10 a.m., the new St. Therese Parish sign outside, in front of the church will be dedicated. The sign was recently commissioned by and purchased for the parish by Cargill Council with generous support from St. Mary’s Circle 543 of the Daughters of Isabella.
Celebrations will conclude with a short, public memorial prayer service at 10:15 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cemetery at the grave of Cargill Council’s first Grand Knight, Edward Mullan.
He served as the Catholic family fraternal group’s first elected leader, starting from its beginning, on July 26, 1892, and continuing in the position until 1895. Mullan died in 1916, at the age of 61. Council officials are holding the service at his grave, to symbolize all the council’s members down through the organization’s first 133 years.
The three events will be conducted by St. Therese Parish’s Pastor and Cargill Council’s Chaplain, the Very Reverend David P. Choquette.
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