Vice President-elect JD Vance and his spouse Usha Vance kicked off Inauguration Day festivities Monday morning with a service at St. John’s Church, a historic Episcopal church close to the White Home.

The service precedes a full day of occasions, as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to enter his second presidential time period. Vance, the previous Ohio GOP Senator and Middletown native, will even be sworn in Monday, taking the oath of workplace utilizing a Bible that when belonged to his great-grandmother.

Here is what to find out about JD and Usha Vance’s spiritual backgrounds.

What faith is JD Vance?

Vance was baptized Catholic and acquired his first communion in 2019 at St. Gertrude Priory, which is hooked up to a Dominican parish in Cincinnati, the place Vance now lives. He selected St. Augustine as his patron saint.

“I grew to become persuaded over time that Catholicism was true. I used to be raised Christian, however by no means had a super-strong attachment to any denomination, and was by no means baptized. After I grew to become extra all for religion, I began out with a clear slate, and seemed on the church that appealed most to me intellectually,” Vance mentioned in an interview with The American Conservative.

What faith is JD Vance’s spouse, Usha Vance?

JD Vance’s spouse, Usha Vance, will turn out to be the primary Indian American second woman within the White Home upon her husband’s inauguration. Usha Vance will even be the primary Hindu second woman, having come from a Hindu household who’s deeply spiritual.

In a June interview with Fox Information, the vice president-elect mentioned his spouse helped him “re-engage” together with his Christian religion.

The couple, who met after they had been each college students at Yale Regulation College, bought married in Kentucky in 2014 and had been blessed by a Hindu pundit in a separate ceremony, per The New York Occasions.