Augustinians name layman new director of St. Rita Shrine
From Catholic Philly News: “A longtime university campus minister has been named the director of the National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia.
Jonathan Jerome becomes just the second lay leader of the Shrine in South Philadelphia that is run under the auspices of the Augustinian Friars. He began his duties Oct. 7.
Augustinian Father Michael F. Di Gregorio, Prior Provincial of the Augustinian Province of St. Thomas of Villanova, said he was confident in Jerome’s leadership of the Shrine “especially as it expands its service to the local community with new senior housing at St. Rita Place and the wider national community who come to learn about and to pray to St. Rita,” he said.