1970 – Two sisters depart by boat for a visit to the communities located in river areas of Maues.
Gudivada School (India) 1968 R.C.M. School Gudivada (Roman Catholic Mission School, can be read on the board). The school of reeds and straw is very dark. So, sr. Serena takes class in the courtyard under the neem tree. We can see the presence of small girls (and not only boys!) in between the school benches.
Bhimavaram Hospital (India) 1977 Sr. Alphonsa, Panamkattu, one of the first sister doctor from India, returned to help her people after studying in Padua (Italy), examines a patient ophthalmological visit. Le attività sanitarie dell’ospedale si estendono al circondario: in the picture below, the sisters visit a village nearby for the Leprosy Survey to find out if there are people affected b...
Milan, early 1960es. Waiting for the departure towards their missions, some sisters are sowing and embroidering for the vestments or in order to earn something to help the financial situation of the house. Other sisters are doing sing practice for the liturgy. &nbs...
As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you. (Jh. 20:21) 29th December 2018, indeed is a memorable day for Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate (Nirmala Sisters), as a momentous event took place in the life of Srs. Natta Jyothi, Antony Mary Jenifer Abraham, Jenita Arockia Mary Innaci, Maria Assuntha Soosai Raj, and Amala Catherine Amal Raj, who said their final yes to the Lord, offering th...
“Baptized and sent: The Church of Christ on a mission in the world“ Extraordinary Missionary Month 2019 “An extraordinary missionary month, why?”… “Where does it come from and why in 2019?”… “What we missionaries must do?” These are the questions to be asked with a person “who is inside” of this special event for October 2019: Fr. Fabrizio Meroni, PI...
“Figlia” del Movimento Giovanile Missionario, come ama definirsi, Francesca Centorame, di Roseto degli Abruzzi (TE) oggi, suor Francesca, ha fatto la sua prima professione tra le Missionarie dell’Immacolata, lo scorso ottobre 2018. Quasi 10 anni fa era partita per poche settimane alla volta del Brasile, della bellissima Amazzonia. A spingerla il sogno che portava in cuore fin dai primi momen...
1947, Milan: sr. Albina, in front, producing cards for the benefactors; the sisters behind are packing the magazines to be dispatched for missionary animation. The parcels of magazines were delivered from PIME house to our community in Via Masaccio: here they were brought up and down the third floor (without a lift at that time!) were the offices were situated (at the first floor Mr. Villa was sti...
We are in Gudivada, the first community of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate opened in India in 1948, which over the years has grown in number of sisters, nationality (in 1954 it accepts the first vocations from India) and of activities: such as a clinic, an equipped hospital and a school that serve the whole surrounding area. So, in 1967, sr. Edvige Zanfrini – above – while visits a pa...
2nd December 1988: sr. Silvana Lobo and Sr. Elizabeth Manimalakunnel arrive in Wataluma,
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With the elderly, a journey of hope that comes from listening 13/07/2025
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A hope that comes in, a hope that goes out 18/06/2025
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