sr. Iara da Silva Vieira – North Brazil Province, Italy
This picture recalls the beginning of our mission in Papua New Guinea, in 1989.
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...
Sr. Paola Vizzotto with the first group of girls admitted to play in the band of the College Charles Louanga of Ambam.
At 7 am on November 15, 1953, the first three missionaries arrived in then Pakistan, now Bangladesh, to open a new missionary presence.
In the prison of Bragança Paulista, in the state of San Paolo, a group of prisoners prepared for the Sunday liturgy.
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.
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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