I thought Fr. McGivney started K of C at St. Mary’s in New Haven?
I weep when I think of what my home state has become. I can never go back (except for pizza).
You’re right, he was ordained at the IC.
I am a member of the Knights of Columbus. When I lived in Connecticut, I was a member of St. Mary's Church on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven. Fr. McGivney was a parish priest there when he founded the Knights of Columbus in the basement meeting hall. The first K of C Council was San Salvador Council #1 which still exists at a different location. Within a few years after the K of C was founded, St. Mary's Church became a Dominican Church (1880s). It had been built in about 1849 and is the second oldest Catholic Church in Connecticut (to the slightly older St. Mary's Church in Windsor Locks).
When the Dominicans took over, Fr. McGivney became pastor of a parish at Thomaston, Connecticut. There he contracted tuberculosis and died of it at a relatively early age (late 30s?). Fr. McGivney's mortal remains were removed from his grave at Thomaston and entombed in a marble sarcophagus at St. Mary's Church in New Haven (left rear of the Church). The Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus is headquartered to this day in downtown New Haven and the K of C paid for a very first rate restoration (costing millions of dollars) and enhancement of St. Mary's Church at New Haven about 20 years ago.
Fr. McGivney's cause for sainthood is pending and I believe that a St. Mary's Dominican priest, Fr. Gabriel O'Donnell, is in charge of advancing that cause.