Pilgrimage to Cincinnati, OH, Covington and Newport, KY.

Pilgrims to visit Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America with Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, Vicar General, on August 27

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As a project of The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) this traveling exhibit tells the story of the Sisters who, since first arriving in America nearly 300 years ago, have shaped the nations healthcare, educational, and social justice institutions.

In association with Cincinnati Museum Center we learn about women who corresponded with President Thomas Jefferson, talked down bandits and roughnecks, lugged pianos into the wilderness, and provided the nation’s first health insurance to Midwestern loggers. Discover sisters’ courage during the Civil War, the Gold Rush, the San Francisco Earthquake, the Influenza Epidemic, the Civil Rights Movement and Hurricane Katrina.

The trip will depart from the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., in Indianapolis promptly at 8 a.m. on August 27.

Upon arrival in Covington, Mass will be celebrated in Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption at 11 a.m. Lunch will follow nearby at America’s first authentic Hofbräuhouse in Newport.

After lunch, there will be a tour at the Cincinnati Museum Center. The group will return to Indianapolis between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.

The cost is $59 per person (non-religious) and $49 per person (religious) and includes deluxe motor coach transportation, continental breakfast, lunch, fees.

The trip will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Pilgrims may register here.

You may also register by calling Carolyn Noone, associate director of special events for the archdiocese, at 317-236-1428 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1428. †

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