The LOC/St. Vincent de Paul celebrated the beginning of the 400th anniversary in the church where Catherine Harkins started the Ladies of Charity in the USA, December 8, 1857.
This year the weather could not have been more beautiful as more than 100 ladies from the various Pittsburgh diocesan parishes gathered for a prayer service for the unclaimed dead.
A Saturday afternoon in August, 2016, brought thunder to a blue-sky day at the annual Night of Thunder event in support of the Ladies of Charity food pantry.
The Ladies of Charity of St. Gertrude in Cincinnati, Ohio collected over 600 pairs of underwear and socks for the Hope Emergency Center in Lynchburg, Ohio.