Redemptorist Father Jerome Holland, a native of South Bronx, died Sunday, July 26, at the St. John Neumann Residence in Stella Maris, Timonium, MD. He was 80 years old and had been receiving nursing care over the past few years.
Last Saturday, Redemptorist priests, brothers, their families, friends and caregivers gathered to celebrate the beginning of a new ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. After years of planning and months of construction, 17 retired Redemptorists in need of skilled nursing care moved into their new home last month on the fifth floor of Stella Maris in Timonium, Md.
What to give a pope who already owns an iPod? How about a personal item that once adorned the body of the first male, naturalized U.S. citizen to be declared a saint? Through the generosity of the Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province, when President Barack Obama met with Pope Benedict XVI July 10 in Rome, he presented the pope with a stole (pictured) that was used to dress the earthly remains of St. John Neumann, a 19th-century Redemptorist who tirelessly served the growing immigrant population in the United States.