Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix

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The Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix (abbreviated CMC; Vietnamese: Dòng Đức Mẹ Đồng Công or simply Dòng Đồng Công) is a religious order within the Roman Catholic Church, founded by the Most Reverend Dominic Maria Trần Đình Thủ, CMC, using the unofficial title Co-Redemptrix to refer to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is dominated by men of Vietnamese extraction. The congregation maintains a monastery in Carthage, Missouri, which hosts an annual Marian Days pilgrimage, the largest Roman Catholic festival in the United States.^[1]

Before 1975, the congregation was relatively unheard of in Vietnam, overshadowed by the Dominican, Franciscan, Jesuit, and Redemptorist orders, among others. In the United States, however, virtually all Vietnamese Roman Catholics are aware of the congregation.^[2]