Holy Cross Grows in Its 90th Year
Diocesan Press Service. November 15, 1974 [74316]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Two significant occasions recently marked the life of the Order of the Holy Cross. The oldest indigenous American men's community celebrated its 90th anniversary with festivities at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, on September 14, and four life professions this fall pushed OHC membership to 41 men.
September 22, 1974, was the first time for an American men's community to have over 40 living members. Number 40 was Br. Roy Jude Arnold, OHC, the first member from the Diocese of Jamaica. He has been assigned to the Order's work in the Diocese of Liberia.
Br. Damian Williams, OHC, was life professed on October 27 in a filled St. James Cathedral, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the first OHC life profession outside the USA and the first occasion for the Anglican Church of Canada to have one of its cathedrals used for a life profession. Br. Damian, a Candidate for Holy Orders from the Diocese of Tennessee, brought current OHC membership to 41, and is the 77th person to take life vows in the Order's history.
The Order of the Holy Cross was founded in 1884 by the Rev. James Otis Sargent Huntington, OHC, when he professed the traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to Frederick Huntington, his father and Bishop of Central New York; Henry C. Potter, Assistant Bishop of New York, and Charles Quintard, Bishop of Tennessee.
Holy Cross currently operates priories in West Park, N.Y.; Liberia, West Africa; Santa Barbara, Calif.; Grapevine, Tex. (near Dallas) ; Toronto, Ontario; New York City; and Berkeley, Calif.