NOVENA BEFORE THE FIRST COPY OF THE ICON TO LEAVE ROME

 by Fr. Timothy Buckley C.Ss.R

 The Redemptorists came to Liverpool in 1851 and the community of Bishop Eton has always treasured the fact that it received the first copy of the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour to leave Rome in 1866.

The archives of the community record that Fr Lammeus, Secretary General, had passed through Liverpool in the February of that year and the community was so captivated by the story of the icon about to be entrusted to the Congregation that it began a novena for Fr Hall, a member of the community who was seriously ill. As a result Fr Hall was miraculously cured and in due course Bishop Eton provided the compensation paid to the Augustinian Fathers.

Fr. Francis Hall C.Ss.R

 

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