OH SR196

Commends the Cincinnati Province of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood on the bicentennial of its congregation on August 15, 2015.

Recognizes the organization was established in Italy by St. Gaspar del Bufalo on August 15, 1815, to renew the church and minister to the disenfranchised.

Acknowledges the organization came to the United States in 1844 under Fr. Francis de Sales Brunner at the invitation of the Diocese of Cincinnati and is headquartered in Dayton.

Notes the Cincinnati Province has founded parishes, mission houses, the Sorrowful Mother Shrine, St. Charles Center, Saint Joseph's College, and Calumet College of St. Joseph throughout western Ohio and Indiana.

Directs the Clerk of the Senate to transmit a duly authenticated copy of the resolution to the Cincinnati Province of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood.