The Regina Coeli House a Short History of the Sspx’S United States of a Merica District Office
JuLY 2006 Monthly, Number 175 egina oeli REGINA COELI HOUSE, 2918 Tracy Ave., Kansas City, MO 64109 REPORT RTel: (816) 753-0073 FAX (816) 753-3560 C THE REGINA COELI HOUSE A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SSPX’S UNITED STATES OF A MERICA DISTRICT OFFICE On June 15th, the Clarence Kelly, and Donald Sanborn, all from New York Feast of Corpus Christi, state and who would Bishop Bernard Fellay, eventually be accepted to Superior General of the Econe and ordained for the SSPX, blessed the Society. A year later in unfinished building in August, the Archbishop Platte City, MO, made another visit to the (about 30 miles north States during which at the of Kansas City, MO) invitation of Fr. Frederic J. that eventually will Nelson4, the Archbishop become the new presided at the national location for the United pilgrimage to the Shrine of States of America Our Lady of the Prairies, Bishop Fellay blesses with holy water District headquarters. where afterwards on August the uncompleted 3rd floor of the new Fr. Jean-Jacques building with Fr. Fullerton. This area Olier, founder28th, of he ordained the first will serve as the library and storage. In the Beginning…the Sulpicians.American priest for the SSPX, With Kentucky Trappist, Fr. Urban Fr. Gregory Post, in the Synder assisting with book, Archbishop Lefebvre ordains Fr. The SSPX’s presence in the United States has had a long Powers Lake, ND chapel. Gregory Post, the first American and interesting history, beginning only a few short years priest of the SSPX. after the Society’s foundation by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre The SSPX Comes to the USA in 19691 and was one of its first apostolates.
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