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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 constant renewal.
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