Cardinal Egan to celebrate closing of Paulist 150th Anniversary Year

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 16, 2009

Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York will celebrate a Mass to officially close the Paulist Fathers’ 150th Anniversary Year at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, 60th and Columbus, Sunday, at 10 a.m. Jan. 25, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle.

It was Cardinal Egan who opened the Paulist 150th Anniversary Year in January 2008 by proclaiming Paulist founder and native New Yorker Father Isaac Thomas Hecker a Servant of God, opening the path to sainthood for Father Hecker. The anniversary year included a national convocation in Washington, D.C., two pilgrimages to Rome, and celebrations in each of the 18 cities served by the Paulists.