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Our history
The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St Charles
Borromeo – Scalabrinians was founded by Blessed
John Baptist Scalabrini in
Piacenza on October 25, 1895, with the brother and sister
Father Joseph and
Mother Assunta Marchetti as
Cofounders. The Generalizia
Center of the same one is to Rome. E' constituted from six province and carries
out its mission between the migranti in 26 countries of four continents.
By living the Scalabrinian charism, Scalabrinian Sisters
welcome God’s love as a gift to be passed on to those suffering the hardship of
being migrants.
In this way they guarantee the continuation of the prophetic
intuition of the Congregation’s Founder,
John Baptist Scalabrini, who
translated this intuition into a practical socio-pastoral project, entrusting
its early steps in history to the generous determination of the Cofounders,
Father Joseph Marchetti and
Mother Assunta Marchetti.
The charism of the MSCS Sisters arose at the time of the
great Italian emigration toward the Americas at the end of the 19th
century, as a response of faith that took practical shape as an institution. It
continues with the spiritual heirs of Blessed Scalabrini: the
Missionaries of St Charles, the Missionary Sisters of St Charles
Borromeo – to whom the
Secular
Scalabrinian Missionaries, who drew their inspiration from Bishop
Scalabrini, were added at a more recent date – and the
Scalabrinian Lay Missionaries.
As time passed, the underlying value was grasped of certain
elements inherent in history, such as the Latin word humilitas, which had
a determining place in the spirituality of the Founder, who had in turn drawn it
from St Charles Borromeo, the patron
he left to “his” congregations. From this word MSCS Sisters learn to be
“sisters”, “servants”, “free gift”.
Accompanying and supporting migrants in their exodus, the
Sisters also seek to draw inspiration from the Risen One who, on the road to
Emmaus, comes “close” and who, with pedagogical tact, takes the initiative in a
dialogue that leads the disciples to the discovery of his identity, in other
words the Truth. Migrants in turn become a “teacher” for them, calling them to
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