Grail (women's movement)

By 1939, the Grail had become a colourful movement involving thousands of young women in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Germany, challenging them to deep personal and spiritual commitment.

[1] The Grail was started in Australia in 1936,[2] the United States in 1940, New Zealand in the late 1930s, Brazil and South Africa in 1951, Uganda in 1953, Portugal in 1958, and subsequently in Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, Italy, Mexico, Canada, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Mozambique, Kenya, and Sweden.

Grail members are also working in Belgium, Belize, Cape Verde, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Switzerland, Ecuador, and Zimbabwe.

Its United States headquarters, known as Grailville, is located in Loveland, Ohio.

In England, the Grail has the status of a secular institute within the Catholic Church, an association of lay people making a permanent commitment to a particular form of Christian life.