Blessed Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on this day in 1852, and he returned to his hometown in December 1877 to celebrate his first Mass at Immaculate Conception Church on Christmas Day. Immaculate Conception was designated a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008, just five weeks before the pope issued a decree recognizing Father McGivney’s heroic virtue. Father Jim Sullivan, a Waterbury native who now serves as rector of the basil

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