In 2016 the Redemptorists celebrates the 150th anniversary of receiving the miraculous icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help from the hands of Pope Pius IX. When he entrusted the icon to the Redemptorists he asked them to “make her known throughout the world.” As the 150th Jubilee of the icon of Mother of Perpetual Help is coming to a close, there will be the Solemn Eucharistic Celebration at the St. Mary Major Basilica, presided over by his Eminence João Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation