Rooms triomfalisme in de Amsterdamse straten ; De betekenis van het 27e Internationaal Eucharistisch Congres (22-27 juli 1924) voor de ontwikkeling van het Nederlandse katholicisme

Abstract This article analyses the preparations and the implementation of the 27th International Eucharistic Congress, held at Amsterdam in 1924. After an introduction on the (negative) image of this congress in Dutch historiography, on the person of de papal legate (the Dutch cardinal Willem van Rossum CSSR ), and on the phenomenon of the ‘Eucharistic Congresses’ and its organizing committee, the author analyses the forces pro and contra the organization of such a Congress in Amsterdam. The initiative was taken by some ultramontane clergy and laypeople, gathered around the revival of the devo... Mehr ...