The Holy Cross History Association seeks to promote and stimulate historical study of and research on those religious communities which trace their origins to the Rev. Basil Moreau of LeMans, France; to discover, collect and preserve historical manuscripts; to print, publish and cause to be distributed, papers, books, writings, reports, articles and data bearing on or in any way relating to the Congregations of Holy Cross. Toward this end it will endeavor to hold an annual conference; to increase its membership; and to establish and maintain endowments for any of the foregoing purposes.

We meet at different locations and host institutions in the United States, with a dozen juried papers given over two days. Our quarterly newsletter Holy Cross History is an independent scholarly journal that is fully refereed by a board of scholars; it receives submissions from scholars worldwide on topics pertinent to the history of Holy Cross.

Past president of the Association, Sister Madeleine Sophie Hebert, MSC, at the Holy Cross History Conference held in New Orleans, June, 1999.

Grotto on the grounds of La Grande Trappe in France, the spot where Father Moreau was inspired to incorporate sisters, brothers, and priests into one Congregation of Holy Cross, a plan similar to an earlier plan of Brother Andre Mottais. Moreau was never able to realize the plan in his lifetime.

Past president of the Association, Sister M. Campion Kuhn, CSC, at the Holy Cross History Conference held in New Orleans, June, 1999.