Alumni Choral Group Performs at National Eucharistic Congress

Floriani, the men’s choral group formed by four Thomas Aquinas College alumni, had the honor of singing before thousands of pilgrims during Adoration Thursday evening at the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis. (See video below.)

As the Most Rev. William Byrne, Bishop of Springfield, Massachusetts, brought out the monstrance, TAC graduates Thomas Quackenbush (’14), Giorgio Navarini (’17), Joseph Daly (’19), and Graham Crawley (’20) began the Pange Lingua Gloriosi, solemnly singing as the Blessed Sacrament came to rest on the altar. Throughout the hourlong Adoration, the four sang a mix of traditional and original sacred music, their voices filling the enormous arena and helping to lift attendees’ hearts to God.

Founded in 2017, Floriani began as a TAC student group. As undergraduates, its members sang both on and off campus for liturgies, workshops, and feast days. After graduating, they pursued other paths individually until 2021, when they re-formed and decided to perform professionally. Since then, Floriani has gone on to perform and record sacred music and conduct retreats for church choirs, all to introduce Catholics to the Church’s rich heritage of beautiful liturgical music. It also provides instruction in Gregorian chant through its Chant School podcast.

On Friday, Floriani sang at a National Eucharistic Conference Mass offered by the Most Rev. Joseph F. Naumann, Bishop of Kansas City, Kansas. May God bless these talented young men as they continue to spread a greater recognition and reverence for Christ’s Presence in the Eucharist!