初聖体の年齢を引き下げるきっかけとなった4歳の子供の信仰の物語

Nellie Organ — affectionately known as “Little Nellie” — was a 4-year-old child from Cork, Ireland, whose piety and closeness to God led in part to the lowering of the age at which children could receive their first holy Communion. In 1910, a decree was promulgated by the Sacred Congregation of the Discipline of the Sacraments under Pope Pius X on the subject. Quam Singulari states: “The age of discretion, both for confession and for holy Communion, is the time…