Description: 1873-1885 HOLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION Pictorial Illustrated Membership Card PRAYER TO INFANT JESUS Note first of all the Asian (likely Chinese) presence in the illustration on this thin card — the couple in the boat to the left, the asian-style sailboat on right, and the small Asian child holding the infant before the missionary nun, perhaps even the child in the arms of the standing nun. Engraving signed "Wickman" lower left. While undated, a time period for the age of this card can be established to between 1873 and 1885, based on the present-tense reference to "The Archbishop of Aix, formerly Apostilic Vicar in Japan..." This person was Théodore-Augustin Forcade, who service as the Archbishop of Aix from 1873 until his death in 1885. Making this a relatively early bit of ephemera from this Association established in 1843. Size of card about 4-7/8 x 3 inches (123 x 76 mm). Very Good condition as shown. Guaranteed authentic 18th century item. The Pontifical Association of the Holy Childhood (Latin: Pontificium Opus a Sancta Infantia) or Missionary Childhood Association, is a Catholic children's association for the benefit of foreign missions. It is one of four Pontifical Mission Societies and is dedicated to fostering children’s awareness of the missionary nature of the Church. In 1843 Charles de Forbin-Janson, Bishop of Nancy, France, established the Association of the Holy Childhood (Association de la Sainte Enfance). Forbin-Janson sought a way to assist missionaries in China who had written for help. On the advice of Pauline Jaricot, who had founded the Society for the Propagation of the Faith some twenty years before, he established a children’s charity to provide assistance to children in foreign lands. 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 dioceses. Pope Leo XIII, in the 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, consisting of fifteen priests and as many laymen. This general council had an exclusive right of general direction and of the distribution of the society's funds. French Catholic missionaries were active in China; they were funded by appeals in French churches for money. The Holy Childhood Association was a target of Chinese anti-Christian protests notably in the Tianjin Massacre of 1870. 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Price: 7 USD
Location: Montgomery, New York
End Time: 2024-11-26T20:25:57.000Z
Shipping Cost: 1.15 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Order: Holy Childhood Association
Religion: Christianity
Time Period Manufactured: 1873-1885
