On Monday, June 28, 2010, twelve first-year seminarians received their cassock from Monsignor Gilles Wach, Founder and Prior General, at the magnificent Chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano in Florence.
Dozens of friends of the Institute from the four corners of the United States came to the Shrine of Christ the King for the national retreat of the lay Society of the Sacred Heart.
With the fatherly presence of the Founder and Prior General of the Institute, Monsignor Gilles Wach, over five hundred faithful and friends of the Institute participated in a pilgrimage to the National Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians at the Basilica of Holy Hill near Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday, May 29.
Published during this Year of the Priest with the support of the Institute of Christ the King, the monumental book The Catholic Priest: Image of Christ places in the forefront the beauty and sacredness of the Catholic priesthood.
In honor of St. Jean Marie de Vianney, whose exemplary life as a parish priest was cited by Pope Benedict XVI when he proclaimed the Year for Priests, hundreds of faithful and friends of the Institute gathered on Saturday, April 17, for a pilgrimage to Ars.
On Pentecost Saturday, May 29, the Institute is organizing a Marian pilgrimage to the national shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians in the beautiful Basilica known as "Holy Hill," near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.