The Society of the Holy Child Jesus announced Feb. 25 that it was abandoning its plans to move some of the remains of Philadelphia-born Mother Cornelia Connelly from a chapel in Mayfield School to the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul. The translation of the relics had been requested in the hope that pilgrims would pray for, and the Society would obtain, the miracles sought for her beatification and canonization, since Connelly was declared venerable in 1992.
