So glad to see something on Carroll!
So very glad to see mention almost immediately that he consecrated this country to Mary. This is hardly ever noted much less known. Who would think we even have a patron saint, much less Mary? What could be better?
Please help us God!
When he was near death, Archbishop Carroll said, “Of those things that give me most consolation at the present moment, one is that I have always been attached to the practice of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary; that I have established it among the people under my care, and placed my diocese under her protection.”