Dale W. Trott, Immediate Past State Deputy of the Maryland State Council of the Knights of Columbus, will be presenting an icon of Our Lady Help of Persecuted Christians to St. Michael the Archangel parish at the conclusion of the 4:00 PM mass on Saturday, September 25, 2021. This icon is being presented to the parish as a token of appreciation for all of the efforts of Sir Knight Stephen Holowenzak and St. Michael the Archangel Council #15084 to support persecuted Christians around the world.

Created by Italian iconographer Fabrizio Diomedi, the icon depicts the Blessed Mother, with the Child Jesus over her heart, spreading her protective mantle around a representative gathering of recent Christian martyrs including men and women, young and old, from East and West; priests, religious and laypersons, including one of the six priest-members of the Knights of Columbus who were killed by the Mexican government in the first half of the 20th century. The four crosses represent an "ecumenism of blood" among martyrs of Roman and Eastern Catholicism, as well as those of Coptic, Armenian, Syriac and Orthodox traditions.