Ecclesiastical Prayer Group

 Overtime, I've belonged to a couple of prayer groups.  They've been in parishes and we prayed for various things.  We would pray for any intention.  Some prayer groups even had prayer lines dedicated to callers' intentions, which varied.

Anyway, I'd like to know why the prayer group, "Prayer League of Emperor Charles for the peace of the people," was given the designation an "ecclesiastical prayer group," in 1963 by Benedict XV.  It seems like any other prayer group, I have known, only more of them, world-wide.

When Charles was born, Austria was teeming with discontent.  Remember the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand set off WWI. As a child, a stigmatic nun prophesized that Charles would have much trouble in his life as emperor and as a father and leader.  A prayer group was set up specifically to pray for him, as he grew.

Countess Karolyi cursed Emperor Franz Joseph because he executed her son.  

"May heaven and hell blast your happiness! May your family be exterminated! May you be smitten in the persons of those you best love! May your children be brought to ruin, and may your life be wrecked, and yet may you live on in lonely, unbroken and horrible grief to tremble when you recall the name of Karolyi!"

Ah, a prayer group dedicated to praying for the future Emperor would be a good idea. Charles died age 35, leaving behind 8 children.  The prayer group then prayed for his beatification, which did happen in 2004.  Now the prayer group continues to pray for varia, especially peace.