PHOTOS: Eucharistic procession to Venerable Fr. Tolton’s final resting place
July 9, 2024, Quincy, Illinois — part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage
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Several hundred people pray Solemn Vespers with Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield and retired Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry of Chicago in St. Peter Church in Quincy, Illinois, before joining them in procession with the Most Blessed Sacrament from there to the burial place of Venerable Father Augustus Tolton in St. Peter Cemetery on July 9, the 107th anniversary of his death. Bishop Perry is co-postulator for the sainthood cause of Fr. Tolton, the Roman Catholic Church’s first recognizably Black priest in the United States. He was born into a family of enslaved people in northeastern Missouri and baptized where St. Peter Church in Brush Creek now stands. Joining the group were national pilgrims from the St. Junipero Serra arm of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage from San Francisco to the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis. (76 photos)
