2nd December 1988: sr. Silvana Lobo and Sr. Elizabeth Manimalakunnel arrive in Wataluma,
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...
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.
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 ...
At that time there were no ambulances to transport the sick from the villages.
Sr. Paola Vizzotto with the first group of girls admitted to play in the band of the College Charles Louanga of Ambam.
In this photo there are sr. Rosangela de Oliveira, sr. Daniela Galaffu and Sr. Adele. They were living in Barreirinha in the state of Amazonas. They were close to home, coming down from the boat called Paradise in a flood period that lasted a few months.
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