Archconfraternity of Holy Agony

The Archconfraternity of Holy Agony is a lay association for giving special honour to the mental sufferings of Christ during His Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. It was founded as a confraternity in 1862, at Valfleury, France, by Antoine Nicolle (1817–90), a Vincentian priest. Joseph A. Komonchak described it as a type of "counterrevolutionary mysticism".^[1]

It became an Archconfraternity in 1873. In 1894, Pope Leo XIII authorized its extension beyond France. The chief festival is that of the Prayer of Christ, which occurs on Tuesday of Septuagesima week.^[2]

Thomas A. Judge C.M. was a Vincentian priest of the Eastern Province active in preaching parish missions. In 1908, the Superior of the Vincentians in Paris appointed Judge to promote Holy Agony devotion. which he energetically did for about year with mixed results.^[3] The devotion incorporated the wearing of the Red Scapular of the Passion promoted by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1847, Pope Pius IX had granted the Vincentians the faculty of blessing the scapular and investing the faithful with it.^[4]

The society has spread all over the world and is mainly based in churches and chapels of the Lazarists and the Daughters of Charity.^[2] The central house for the Archconfraternity of the Holy Agony is the Vincentian motherhouse in Paris, and its director is the Vincentian superior general.^[5]

References[]

^ Komonchak, Joseph A. "The Enlightenment and the Construction of Modern Roman Catholicism", Annual of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, 1985, 31-59
^ ^a ^b Randolph, Bartholomew. "Archconfraternity of Holy Agony." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 11 September 2021 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Portier, William L., Every Catholic An Apostle: A Life of Thomas A. Judge, CM, 1868-1933, CUA Press, 2017, p. 46 et seq., ISBN 9780813229812
^ Hilgers, Joseph. "Scapular." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ "Valfleury", Vincentian Encyclopedia

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[1] Komonchak, Joseph A. "The Enlightenment and the Construction of Modern Roman Catholicism", Annual of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, 1985, 31-59

[Bart-2] Randolph, Bartholomew. "Archconfraternity of Holy Agony." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 11 September 2021 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[3] Portier, William L., Every Catholic An Apostle: A Life of Thomas A. Judge, CM, 1868-1933, CUA Press, 2017, p. 46 et seq., ISBN 9780813229812

[4] Hilgers, Joseph. "Scapular." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[5] "Valfleury", Vincentian Encyclopedia

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