Photostory

Preparing for mission

06/02/2019, Media, Photostory, Italia

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...

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Working in missionary press

06/01/2019, Media, Photostory, Italy

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...

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The Missionary Sisters in India 60 years

12/12/2018, Media, Photostory, India

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...

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1988: Papua New Guinea

17/11/2018, Photos, Photostory, Papua New Guinea

2nd December 1988: sr. Silvana Lobo and Sr. Elizabeth Manimalakunnel arrive in Wataluma,

Sr. Maddalena and sr. Theresa in Hong Kong

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1968-2018: 50 years from the first arrival in Hong Kong

09/09/2018, Media, Photostory

With suitcases as ‘migrants’, on 11.9.1968 sr. Maddalena Pirodda and Sr. Theresa Pathickal (the first Indian MSI destined to the mission outside her country) arrive in Hong Kong. The photo below shows them still in the airport, where the Canossian Sisters would come to pick them up and by whom they would be given hospitality for the first months waiting to start their own communities a...

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1948: The first departure of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate

09/08/2018, Media, Photostory, India

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London 1968

01/07/2018, Media, Photos, Photostory

In 1968, the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate opened a community in London, where the sisters could prepare themselves for the mission in Asia. Meanwhile, the sisters took care of a small, multi-ethnic kindergarten. They also worked in the Parish and took advantage of opportunities for missionary animation in England.

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Everyday life in Monza 1945

01/05/2018, Media, Photos, Photostory

Community of Monza, everyday life: the sisters still wearing the first black veil, in the years 1945-1948.They are working preparing the yarn, learning to sow their own dress and the embroidery: this in view to be able to teach the women in the mission but also to earn something for the house in the difficult financial period after the second world war. This work continued till the 60es, when the ...