Association of the Holy Childhood
- Association of the Holy Childhood
The Pontifical Association of the Holy Childhood is a Catholic children's association for the benefit of foreign missions.
Foundation
In 1843 Charles de Forbin-Janson, Bishop of Nancy, France, established the Society of the Holy Childhood ("Association de la Sainte Enfance"). Popes and other ecclesiastical dignitaries approved the association and recommended it to the Catholic faithful.
Pope Pius IX, by a Brief of 18 July, 1856, raised it to the rank of a canonical institution, gave it a cardinal protector, and requested all bishops to introduce it in their diocese. Pope Leo XIII, in an encyclical letter, "Sancta Dei Civitas" (3 December, 1890), blessed it and recommended it again to the bishops.
The affairs of the association were managed by an international council at Paris, France, consisting of fifteen priests and as many laymen. This general council had exclusively a right of general direction and of the distribution of the society's funds.
Later history
The association was probably established in the United States by Bishop Forbin-Janson himself. Several agencies in the East and West managed its affairs for about fifty years. On 1 January, 1893, the work was concentrated into one central agency and confided to the Fathers of the Holy Ghost, with headquarters in Pittsburgh. Very Rev. A. Zielenbach, C.S.Sp., was its first central director for about four years. The "Annals of the Holy Childhood" was published bi-monthly, issued in a number of languages.
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