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8 unusual facts about Eucharistic Congress


Dina Bélanger

A musical based on her life was presented as part of the 400th anniversary of Quebec City and the 49th International Eucharistic Congress held there in June 2008.

Efrem Forni

After serving as papal legate to the 1949 National Eucharistic Congress in Ecuador, Forni was named Nuncio to Belgium and Internuncio to Luxembourg on 9 November 1953.

Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti

Pellegrinetti later served as the papal legate to the National Eucharistic Congress in Zagreb on July 30, 1930.

Eucharistic Congress

The Congress ended with a celebration of the Mass in the Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara, with a live link up between that Mass, and a simultaneous Mass celebrated in St Peter's Basilica in Rome in the presence of Pope John Paul II.

The 26th International Eucharistic Congress was held in Rome, 24–29 May 1922.

It was the third to be celebrated in Rome, and the first of its kind to be celebrated in a Jubilee Year.

Giuseppe Beltrami

Beltrami was later named Nuncio to Colombia on November 15, 1945; during his tenure there, he served as the papal legate to the National Eucharistic Congress in Bogotá on June 29, 1946.

Sándor Weöres

It was in 1937 that he made the first of his travels abroad, going first to Manila for a Eucharistic Congress and then visiting Vietnam and India.


Lawrence Shehan

He celebrated an aboriginal Mass at the 1973 Eucharistic Congress in Melbourne.


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