Congregation of Holy Cross

The Congregation of the Holy Cross (Latin: Congregation a Sancta Cruce, religious symbol: CSC) is a Roman Catholic congregation.

It has its origins in the chaos after the French Revolution. Its founder, Blessed Basile Antoine Moreau, was a priest of the diocese of Le Mans. At the request of the bishop, he also assumed the leadership of the Congregation responsibility for another community of brothers who had been 15 years earlier founded by a diocesan priest. Moreau united both communities in 1837 to a congregation, which received international distribution soon.

The congregation consists of a male and a female branch. Today's international fraternity brothers surrounds and priests. Your areas of activity are in the proclamation of the faith, in schools and universities. Today, the Community, 1670 priests and brothers in 13 provinces, mainly in Canada, Algeria, USA, and in Uganda, Tanzania, Peru, Mexico, Kenya, India, Haiti, Ghana, Chile, Brazil and Bangladesh. The presence in France is not very pronounced since the politically motivated expulsion of the Order in 1903.

2010, the first member of the Congregation was canonized. Brother André Bessette (1845-1937), who had worked as a janitor in Quebec thus one of the most famous brothers of the Holy Cross is.

General Superiore

• Basil Anthony Moreau (1837 - 1866)
• Pierre Dufal (August 25, 1866-1868 )
• Edward Sorin (1868 - 1893)
• James Wesley Donahue (1926 - 1938)
• Albert Cousineau (1938 - 1950)
• Christopher O'Toole (1950 - 1962)
• Germain -Marie Lalande (1962 - 1974)
• Tom Barrosse (1974 - 1986)
• Claude Grou (1986 - 1998)
• Hugh Cleary (17 July 1998-2010 )
• Richard Warner (since 2010)