<P> On April 7, 2017, the congregation was renamed to the Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer upon the recommendation of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, due to the "theological ambiguity" of the title Co-Redemptrix . </P> <P> On April 30, 1975, 185 clergy--about half of the Congregation--left Vietnam as boat people just before the Fall of Saigon . They arrived in the United States at Fort Chaffee and other Operation New Arrivals refugee camps . Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, then Bishop of Springfield--Cape Girardeau, sponsored the priests and brothers, inviting them to purchase a vacant Oblates of Mary Immaculate seminary, Our Lady of the Ozarks College, for a nominal price of $1, to use as their U.S. monastery . Between June 30 and September 3, 1975, nine priests, 154 brothers, and four novices arrived in Carthage, a predominantly Protestant town . The Overseas Congregation of the Mother Coredemptrix received formal recognition from the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples on September 16, 1975, and the congregation's Assumption Province (Vietnamese: Tỉnh Dòng Đồng Công Hoa Kỳ) was established on October 25, 1980, with Most Rev. Barnabus Maria Nguyễn Đức Kiên as the provincial . The Holy See gave the province a mission to minister to the Vietnamese American community . </P> <P> In 1978, the Congregation organized the inaugural Marian Days at the Carthage shrine . Around 1,500 Vietnamese Catholics from the surrounding area participated . In 1984, a statue of Our Lady of Fatima, also known as the International Pilgrim Statue, was enshrined in the Immaculate Heart of Mary Shrine at the Carthage monastery . The statue is removed once a year during the Marian Days celebration for a procession around Carthage . </P> <P> Controversial Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục died at the monastery in 1984 . </P>

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