Tag: Marguerite Fiévez
Maxence Van der Meersch’s Fishers of People
Who knew that a famous French author, Maxence Van der Meersch, wrote a novel about the YCW of the 1930s in the northern French city of Roubaix?
People anniversaries 2025
Once again, this year’s list of “jocist” people anniversaries reveals an extraordinary range of movement leaders and chaplains who lived – and sometimes died – lives of incredible commitment and sacrifice.
Jocist people anniversaries 2024
Happy New Year 2024! Here is a list of people anniversaries to celebrate and commemorate over the course of the coming year.
The early YCW and its enquiries
Well, here is an amazing document compiled in 1951 by Marguerite Fiévez for a research paper she wrote for her social work degree! It’s a list of all the enquiry campaigns organised by the Belgian JOC and JOCF (YCW and Girls YCWs) from 1924 until 1950.
Fears for the ICO Conference… in 1967!
To understand the development of an organisation, it’s often useful to look at its origins. Thus, looking at the problems that developed between the Pontifical Council for the Laity (PCL) and the ICO Conference, it’s useful to look back at the origin of the former body.
Cardijn proposes a ‘Roman Centre’ for the lay apostolate
As Marguerite Fiévez told her biographers, Luc Roussel and Lamya Ben Djaffar, Cardijn would not have liked the proposed structure of the the Pontifical Council of/for the Laity created after Vatican II in 1967.
Henry Cardijn & his son’s consecration to the working class
Today is the 120th anniversary of the death of Joseph Cardijn’s father, Henry, which means it’s also the 120th anniversary of Cardijn’s consecration of his life to the working class.
Cardijn, François Houtart and the princes of the Church
One of many stories François Houtart shared with me concerned Cardijn’s disgust at the opulence of the episcopal palace of the Cuban archbishop.
80th anniversary of the JOC Internationale
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first International Congress held in Brussels from 25-29 August 1935.
