Tag: Victoire Cappe
Marc Sangnier, the Sillon and the YCW
My presentation for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marc Sangnier.
The growing pains of the JOC and JOCF
This is a second letter from Cardijn to the Rome-based Jesuit sociologist and canonist, Arthur Vermeesch, that Jean Tonglet kindly sent to me from the hard drive archives of the late Fr Marc Leclerc SJ. (See the earlier one here: https://www.cardijnresearch.org/2023/01/cardijns-student-movement-la-jeunesse.html) This letter is dated 24 November 1933, eight years after the official foundation of the…
See, judge, act… with the Laymen’s League of New York
In 1911, the Laymen’s League of New York organised social study groups using an early form of the see-judge-act.
Therese of Lisieux: Pius XI, Cardijn, the JOC – and the Sillon
UNESCO plans to honour St Therese of Lisieux, the young French Carmelite nun and author of the spiritual classic, “The Story of Soul,” in its list of 60 personalities for its 2022-23 biennial program.
Two pioneers: Etienne Isabelle and Victoire Cappe
In my library I’m pleased to have Etienne Isabelle’s copy of a 1906 book by Marc Sangnier, La Vie Profonde, which I found in a Paris bookshop some years ago.
Cardijn anniversaries 2017: Updated
This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of Joseph Cardijn on 24 July 1967. It is also the centenary of his imprisonment by the German occupiers during World War I
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.
Love, friendship and social action
One day I (or someone) must go through Cardijn’s writings to analyse what he said about love and friendship. I’m confident that there will be quite a bit.
Facts, principles, solutions: Victoire Cappe 1911
Even before she met Cardijn, Victoire Cappe had started to make a name for herself as an emerging trade union leader. Born in 1886, four years after Cardijn, she was only twenty when she founded Le Syndicat de l’Aiguille at Liege in 1907 under the influence of a local priest, Abbé Paisse. See my article here.…
Easter Centenary for Cardijn, YCW
This Easter marks the centenary of Joseph Cardijn’s arrival to work in the parish of Our Lady at Laeken near Brussels.
