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Tributes to Father McGivney
 

by Columbia Staff

Schools, streets, hospitals and more have been named in honor of the Servant of God Father Michael J. McGivney as his vision and message spread beyond the Knights of Columbus to the Church worldwide

A stained-glass window of Father McGivney at Holy Spirit Church in Lubbock, Texas, installed by Holy Spirit Council 13447.

A stained-glass window of Father McGivney at Holy Spirit Church in Lubbock, Texas, installed by Holy Spirit Council 13447.

Father Michael J. McGivney Center for Cancer Care at St. Raphael’s Hospital, New Haven.

Stained-glass window of Father McGivney at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. A gift from the Knights, the window is in the lower sacristy of the Crypt Church.

Father McGivney Catholic Academy, Markham, Ontario, built in 1990s by York Catholic School District. Stained-glass windows at the school contributed by Markham Knights of Columbus depict Father McGivney comforting widows, orphans and the sick.

Immaculate Conception Parish in Waterbury, Conn., where Michael McGivney worshiped as a boy, named its new meeting hall, a former Episcopal church, Father Michael J. McGivney Building.

Street named for Father McGivney in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Stained-glass window, McGivney image, sponsored by St. Francis of Assisi Council 12610 in Mocksville, N.C.

McGivney Guild Statue placed and blessed in vestibule of Corpus Christi Church in Phoenix.

McGivney Guild Statue placed in Toronto park renamed for Westbridge Council 7922.

Waterbury Street renamed Father Michael J. McGivney Boulevard on April 18, 2004. Park at end of street has statue of Father McGivney that was dedicated in 1959 to mark 75th anniversary of Order.

Image of Father McGivney placed in St. Mary of the Cataract Church in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Stained-glass inset of Father McGivney in door of Sacred Heart Church in Norwichtown, Conn.

Mosaic image of Father McGivney in renovated Holy Family Chapel at Supreme Council headquarters in New Haven. Chapel blessed by Supreme Chaplain Bishop William E. Lori on June 11, 2005.

Father Michael McGivney Catholic School, the first elementary school named for founder, blessed and dedicated on May 18, 2005. Located in Dufferin-Peel Catholic School District in Ontario.

He Was Our Father play about Father McGivney written by Dominican Father Cameron debuts at Supreme Council meeting in Chicago in August 2005.

Stained-glass window of Father McGivney in vestibule of Immaculate Conception Church in Port Perry, Ont., donated by Immaculate Conception Council 8951 in Port Perry.

Statue of Father McGivney dedicated September 2005 on the grounds of Heavenly Rest Cemetery in Windsor, Ont., project of Father Victor C. Coté Council 9671 in Tecumseh, Ont.

Statue of Father McGivney dedicated at Monument to the Unborn on grounds of St. Mary Church in Charlotte, Mich., sponsored by St. Mary Council 11875.

McGivney Guild Statue dedicated at Father Lopez Council 5737 in Pinellas Park, Fla.

Father McGivney Way built and dedicated by Bishop Greco Council 9499 in Clemmons, N.C.

Supreme Council donates $8 million for renovation of building on campus of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., to be named McGivney Hall and serve as the new home of the North American session of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family.

Main Street connector in Thomaston, Conn., renamed Father McGivney Way Memorial Connector.

Sacred Heart Church in Springfield, Mo., named new parish center Father Michael J. McGivney Hall. Holy Spirit Council 9533 donated $50,000 to project.

Father McGivney homiletics room at Mt. Angel Seminary in Oregon.

Original statue of Father McGivney and a child in front of council home of Dallas Council 799.

The Victoria Human Exchange Society in British Columbia named a new home McGivney House, for men with little means who are working to acquire skills they need to achieve independence. Knights on Vancouver Island and in the Order’s British Columbia Charity Foundation contributed start-up funding for the house.

Father Michael J. McGivney Chapel in home of San Fernando de Carolina Council 6580 in Carolina, Puerto Rico.