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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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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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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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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.
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Msgr Jack Egan was a prominent chaplain of the YCW and CFM in Chicago, who also worked closely with Saul Alinsky and marched with Martin Luther King.
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Maryknoll Fr Tom Danaher was chaplain to the Hong Kong YCW and active in social ministry there.
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Albert Danker was a South African Oblate of Mary Immaculate, who was chaplain to the South African YCW.
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Leo Davis was a YCW and YCS chaplain from San Diego Diocese, who also founded the Cardijn Center there.
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Bishop Emile-Joseph De Smedt worked closely with the Flemish jocist movements and was a significant ally of Cardijn at Vatican II.
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Bishop Emilio Antonio Di Pasqua was one of the founders of the JOC in Argentina.
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Msgr Francisco Berisso was a well-known chaplain to the JOC in Avellaneda, Argentina.
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Victor Dillard was a French Jesuit, who was sent to Germany under the Compulsory Labour Service regime, where he acted as a chaplain to JOC and other Catholic Action groups before being arrested and eventually sent to Dachau where he died.
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Rodolfo García Escamilla was the founder of the JOC and Christian Workers movements in Mexico and was murdered by a death squad in 1977.
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Archbishop Len Faulkner was a YCW chaplain in Adelaide, Australia, who later became episcopal delegate to the YCW for the Australian bishops.
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Cardinal Josef Frings supported the establishment of the CAJ (German JOC) in the aftermath of World War II. He played a significant role at Vatican II.
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Henri Godin was a French priest and JOC chaplain who co-authored a famous book "France: pays de mission?" (Is France a mission country?) and founded the Mission de Paris.
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Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garrone was an important promoter of Specialised Catholic Action as a seminary professor and later as archbishop of Toulouse and at Vatican II.
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Jean-Marc Gaspoz was a Swiss Capucin priest, who served as a JOC chaplain in France, Seychelles and Zambia before becoming international chaplain of the IYCW.
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Lucio Gera was an Argentine priest and JOC chaplain, who became known as a founder of the "theology of the people."
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René Giraudet was a French Paris Foreign Mission priest who volunteered to serve in Germany under the compulsory labour service regime leading to his arrest for acting as a priest and eventual transfer to Bergen-Belsen and later his death.
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Once a member of the Sillon, Georges Guérin entered the seminary after World War I and became the founding chaplain of the French JOC.
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Palémon Glorieux was a prominent theologian, who co-founded the JOCF in the Lille diocese. He acted as advisor to Cardinal Achille Liénart at Vatican II.
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Jacques Grand'maison was a Canadian JEC and JOC chaplain, who later became an advisor to the Canadian bishops.
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Emile Guerry founded the JOC and the JAC in the Diocese of Grenoble. As archbishop of Cambrai, he continued to support the Specialised Catholic Action movements, including at Vatican II.
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Msgr Reynold Hillenbrand was national chaplain to the US YCW and noted liturgical reformer.
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A Specialised Catholic Action chaplain in Namur, Belgium, Charles-Marie Himmer became the bishop of Tournai and a prominent supporter of Cardijn at Vatican II.
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Fr Joseph Ho was national chaplain to the Singapore YCW.
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Archbishop Denis Hurley was a disciple of Cardijn and a significant ally at Vatican II.
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François Houtart was a JOC chaplain and close collaborator of Cardijn and the movement. As a peritus at Vatican II, he prepared the first draft of the introductory statement on the situation of people in the world for Gaudium et Spes.
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Alberto Hurtado was a Jesuit pioneer of Catholic Action in Chile, who studied at Louvain.
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Jean Jadot was a Belgian JEC chaplain, who later became a Vatican diplomat. He also collaborated with Cardijn during Vatican II.
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John F. Kelly was a Melbourne priest, who discovered the JOC through his reading of French literature. He translated many articles into English and edited the YCW Leaders Bulletin for many years.
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Robert Kothen was president of a study circle of the Jeunesse Syndicaliste before entering the seminary. As a priest, he became Cardijn's assistant responsible for international relations during the 1930s.
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Fr Eugene Langdale was a pioneer of Catholic social work in England, who translated many of Cardijn's writings into English.
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Bishop Manuel was a major promoter of the JOC and other Specialised Catholic Action movements and a close collaborator of Cardijn at Vatican II.
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Louis-Joseph Lebret was a French Dominican priest, who founded the Jeunesse Maritime Chrétienne (JMC) on the JOC model, and later helped draft Pope Paul VI's encyclical Populorum Progressio.
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Fr Frank Lombard was the founding chaplain of the Melbourne and Australian YCWs.
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Cardinal Joseph Malula was a JOC and Ligue Nationale de Travailleurs Chrétiens chaplin in the former Belgian Congo. As a bishop he took part in Vatican II and participated in the drafting of Gaudium et Spes.
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Jean Margéot was the founder of the JOC in Mauritius.
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Fr RV Mathias was chaplain to the Indian YCW and later to the International YCW.
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Marcos McGrath was a CSC father, who became archbishop of Panama City. At Vatican II, he was presided over the Signs of the Times Sub-Commission, which adopted the See-Judge-Act method.
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Jean Ménard was member of the Canadian JEC, who later became a missionary priest and JEC chaplain.
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Fr Ted Mitchinson was an English YCW chaplain who also worked with the movement in South Africa. He also translated the Fiévez-Meert biography of Cardijn into English.
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Msgr Marvin Mottet, a former director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, started his life of social action following his youthful experience of YCS as a student at St Ambrose University in Davenport, Ohio.
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Carlos Mugica was an Argentinian Jesuit worker-priest, who was also a JEC chaplain. He was assassinated in 1974.
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Yves de Montcheuil was a French Jesuit theologian, a JOC chaplain and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He was captured and shot in August 1944.
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Hugh O'Sullivan was an Adelaide priest, who worked as Adelaide, Australian and International YCW chaplain.
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David Ogilvie-Forbes O.S.B. was an English Benedictine priest, who was also well-known chaplain to the YCW in Warrington.
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Jorge Parisotto was national chaplain to the Brazilian JOC during the dictatorship period of the 1960s and 1970s and later regional chaplain for the Americas.
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Gaston Pineau was a French priest, who was a chaplain to the JOC, JOCF, the Mouvement Populaire de Familles (MPF) and the Action Catholique Ouvrière (ACO).
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Roger Poirier was a Canadian Oblate of Mary Immaculate, who became diocesan chaplain of the Montreal JOC and later the Quebec JOC.
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Mexican Jesuit Blessed Miguel Pro attended the first National Congress of the JOC in 1925 while studying in Belgium. He was later executed by the Mexican anti-clerical government on trumped up charges.
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Ecuadorian Bishop Leonidas Proaño founded the JOC in Riobamba in 1954. Later he worked extensively with indigenous communities and was a Council Father at Vatican II.
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Louis Putz was a German-born American CSC father, who learned the jocist method in France, and was a pioneer chaplain for the YCW, YCS and CFM movements in the USA.
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Chicago priest, Fr Bill Quinn was a chaplain to the YCW, YCS and CFM movements before becoming executive secretary to the US Bishops Committee on Migrant Workers.
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Albert Quirion was a pioneer chaplain of the JAC in Canada. In 1955, he was killed by hitchhikers he had picked up.
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Enrique Rau was a founding chaplain of the JOC in Argentina who also translated several of Cardijn's works into Spanish. As a bishop, he also participated in Vatican II.
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Jean Rodhain was a French JOC chaplain, later a prisoner of war in Germany, and the founder of Secours catholique now Caritas France.
