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Cardijn addresses a meeting of teenage JOC leaders in Dunkirk.
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Co-founder of the Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (JOC); died at the Dachau Concentration Camp.
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A member of the "founder trio" of the JOC, Paul Garcet died in the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1945.
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One of the 'founder trio' of the JOC, Jacques Meert also played a key role in the foundation of the World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW).
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Founder of the Syndicat de l'Aiguille (Needleworkers Union), Victoire Cappe worked closely with Cardijn to launch study circles of teenage girl workers in Laeken.
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Madeleine De Roo worked closely with Cardijn in Laeken to launch study circles for teenage young workers and later for the Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne Féminine
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Co-founder of the French JOC.
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Co-founder of the JOCF in France.
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Co-founder of the JOC in Lille, France.
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Pioneer of the JOCF in Belgium, Marguerite also worked fulltime for the JOC Internationale for 12 years before becoming Cardijn's personal secretary.
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A national fulltime worker for the JOCF in France, Thérèse later founded Claire Amitié, hostels for young women.
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A Catholic writer, Paul McGuire promoted the JOC through his writings and speeches, particularly in Australia and the USA.
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Kevin Kelly brought the YCW to Australia.
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Founder of the JOC in Vietnam.
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Co-founder of the English YCW; first president of the JOC Internationale
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French JOC leader sent to Germany under the forced labour regime during World War II. Arrested for his role in organising workers and died in Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
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Sent to Germany during World War II as a forced labourer. Arrested for organising workers. Died after being evacuated from Flossenburg Concentration Camp.
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JOC leader who was sent to Germany under the forced labour regime, where he organised JOC teams among the young workers. Arrested and eventually sent to Zöschen, where he died of dysentery.
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JOC leader sent to Germany on compulsory labour during World War II. Organised Catholic Action study circles leading to his arrest and eventual transfer to Dora-Mittelbau camp where he died.
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English Anglican priest who tried to launch an Anglican JOC movement.
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A JOC leader from Paris, who was sent to Germany under the forced labour regime. He became a leader in a jocist network leading to his arrest and eventual transfer to Peenemunde, where he died.
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A JOC leader from the Orne region, who volunteered to replace another man who was being sent to Germany for forced labour. Arrested for his working organising Catholic Action study circles, he was sent to Flossenburg Concentration Camp. He died while being transferred to another camp.
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A seminarian, Roger Vallée was called up for forced labour in August 1943. In Germany he helped organised study circles and masses for workers leading to his arrest and his eventual transfer to Mauthausen where he died.
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Belgian KAJ leader, later a trade union leader and eventually a lay auditor at Vatican II.
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JOC leader from northern France, who became an extension worker for the JOC Internationale in Asia.
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French JOC leader, later a leader of the JOC Internationale. Director of the Centre Lebret in Paris.
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Canadian YCW leader, who became the key organiser for the JOC Internationale pilgrimage to Rome in 1957. First elected president of the JOCI.
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Slovak-born leader of the Brazil JOC. Candidate for president at the 1957 JOC International Council.
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US YCW leader, who went to Europe where she worked with the Austrian YCW, the Belgian JOCF and the JOC Internationale before going to South Africa, where she also helped organise young workers.
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Swiss JOC leader, who also worked for the JOC Internationale before becoming a project officer for the French development organisation, CCFD, and later director of the Centre Lebret in Paris.
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Argentine JOC leader, who became a leader of the JOC Internationale, and later a lay collaborator. A trade union leader, he "disappeared" in December 1975.
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A leader of the Malaysian YCW and later the International YCW, who became a well-known community and founder of the NGO, Tenaganita.
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A leader of the National Catholic Girls Movement, later the Girls YCW in Australia, who became an extension worker in India
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An Argentine JOC leader originally from Paraguay, who "disappeared" in 1977.
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Teacher and trade unionist from Barcelona, who was a leader in the Catalan JOC and later worked with the JOC Internationale in Brussels. Author of a history of the Catalan JOC entitled "Memòries sobre la JOC a Catalunya, 1932-1970."
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Early leader of the Australian YCW and later a founder of the YCW Cooperative and pioneer of the cooperative movement in Victoria, Australia.
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Blessed Father Gabriele Maria Allegra was an Italian Franciscan priest, who translated the entire Bible into Chinese for the first time and who was also a student and YCW chaplain in Singapore.
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A founding chaplain of the JOC in Lyon, later became known as the "worker bishop" after he began part-time work in a factory.
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Co-founder and chaplain of the JOC in the Diocese of Cordoba, later bishop of La Rioja. Killed by the military for his involvement with the poor and landless.
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Jesuit Fernando de Arango Álvarez was a Cuban JOC chaplain, who was expelled from Cuba by the Castro government and later re-organised the JOC in the Dominican Republic.
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Edmund Arbuthnott was a national chaplain of the English YCW, who also wrote a short biography of Cardijn.
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JOC and Catholic Action chaplain in the Basque town of Arrasate/Mondragon and founder of the Mondragon Cooperatives.
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Bishop of Cajamarca, José Antonio Dammert Bellido was a major promoter of the Specialised Catholic Action movements.
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Founder of the JOC in Asuncion, Paraguay, later a Vatican II bishop, who also played an important role in the Latin American bishops conference (CELAM) at Medellin, Colombia in 1968.
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Founder of the "Federació de Joves Cristians de Catalunya" (FJCC) or 'Young Christians of Catalonia', precursor of the Catalonian JOC. Later an expert in the Preparatory Commission on Lay Apostolate at Vatic an II.
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Maryknoll priest, Fr Mike Bransfield MM worked for many years in South Korea, where he was also national YCW chaplain.
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Marie-Dominique Chenu was a French Dominican theologian, who worked closely with the early JOC in France and Belgium during the late 1920s and 1930s.
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José Comblin was a Belgian-born theologian, who went to work in Brazil, where he became a JOC chaplain and a well-known liberation theologian.
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Yves Congar was a French Dominican, who gave retreats to early JOC leaders and chaplains in France and Belgium, wrote extensively on the theology of the laity and played a key role at Vatican II.
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New Zealand priest, John Curnow, was a prominent YCW chaplain, who went on to play an important role in other fields of social action and world development.
