Category: Special Events

This page is our portal for information about functions we organize or attend, especially our annual conference and the yearly pilgrimage to the North American Martyrs Shrine. Religious professions and local events are also posted here as these occasions arise.

Robust Catholicism, Fiddles, and Berries

Here at the monastery in Richmond, Dr. Maike Hickson, Joseph Topalian, and Third Order Prefect, Brother John Marie Vianney, M.I.C.M., Tert. gave very inspiring talks on their respective topics. Mrs. Hickson, with her husband and their new born, Isabella Maria, in the audience, whetted the listeners’ appetites for good Catholic literature. Mr. Topalian provided a fascinating tour of his own eventful life, filled with adventure and challenge, in the navy during World War II, in an eastern-rite seminary, and as a Catholic Armenian in America. Continue reading