The Church Unity Octave

From January 18, the feast of St. Peter's Chair in Rome, until January 25, feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, the Church Unity Octave will be observed, as in past years, by Catholics and Anglicans alike.
The Church Unity Octave was suggested, many years ago, by the Society of the Atonement, a Catholic organisation of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis in the United States. The prayers proposed for this octave of supplication for Unity, approved by the American Bishops, were blessed by Pope Pius X, and in 1916 Pope Benedict XV, by an Apostolic Brief, indulgenced the devotion and specified the prayers to be employed.