{"id":8711,"date":"2017-03-30T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdipime.org\/missionary-sisters-immaculate\/storia\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:40:19","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/missionary-sisters-immaculate\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row type=&#8221;color&#8221; bg_color=&#8221;#2c3e50&#8243; padding_top=&#8221;60&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Our history&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|font_size:40px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:44px&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Shadows%20Into%20Light%20Two%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221;]<b>THE BEGINNING<\/b>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div id=\"preghiera\" class=\"modal fade\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"modal-dialog\">\n<div class=\"modal-content\">\n<div class=\"modal-header\">\n<p><button class=\"close\" type=\"button\" data-dismiss=\"modal\">\u00d7<\/button><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"myModalLabel\" class=\"modal-title\"><strong>Consecration to Virgin Mary<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"modal-body\">\n<p>Deign, O most Holy Virgin, to take this new Con\u00adgregation under your patronage: grant it life and growth so that it may co-operate efficaciously in the expansion of the Kingdom of God on earth and the conversion of the poor infidels.<br \/>\nTake us, the weak instruments of this great work, under your protection.<br \/>\nBe our Mother and Mistress, take care of us and consider us at your disposal according to the Divine pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Give us humble and generous hearts, ready for any sacrifice for God&#8217;s glory and for the salvation of the infidels. Grant us the spirit of recollection, prayer, union with God and conformity to His divine will.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"modal-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;color&#8221; bg_color=&#8221;#2c3e50&#8243; padding_top=&#8221;20&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;60&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;A DATE&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|font_size:30px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:36px&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Shadows%20Into%20Light%20Two%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; font_size=&#8221;30px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;36px&#8221; font_weight=&#8221;bold&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgb0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">8 December<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; font_size=&#8221;50px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;50px&#8221; font_weight=&#8221;bold&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgt0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1936<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;A PLACE&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|font_size:30px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:36px&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Shadows%20Into%20Light%20Two%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; font_size=&#8221;50px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;50px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgb0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Milan n. 15<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; font_size=&#8221;30px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;36px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgt0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cesare Melloni st.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; el_class=&#8221;w-link&#8221;]<strong>A humble beginning:<\/strong> Two women, sr. Giuseppina Dones and the young Giuseppina Rodolfi with <a href=\"#\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#preghiera\">a prayer of consacration<\/a> to the Immaculate Virgin Mary gave rise to a new religious Missionary family in the Church drawing from the same charismatic inspiration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pime.org\">PIME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And before that moment? Twenty years of waiting, dreams and prayers: a project that took shape slowly.<\/p>\n<p>The Protagonists of the History were <a href=\"\/?page_id=8879\"><strong>Sr. Giuseppina Dones<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> <a href=\"\/?page_id=8871\"><strong>Giuseppina Rodolfi<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> Foundresses, <a href=\"\/?page_id=8867\"><strong>Fr. Paolo Manna<\/strong><\/a> (beatified in 2001), Inspirer of the Charism and <a href=\"\/?page_id=8883\"><strong>Bishop Lorenzo Maria Balconi<\/strong><\/a>, the Co-founder.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9144&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1507578322375{margin-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] <strong>The research of sr. Giuseppina Dones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">We are in 1898 and Giuseppina Dones was 18 years old. During the Popular Mission in her Parish at Baggio (Milan), she decided to consecrate herself to God through Missionary life. When her sister Ida entered the Institute of the Sisters of Reparation, Giuseppina accompanied her and she was invited to join. In 1916 the Sisters of Reparation agreed to co-operate with the PIME, the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions of Milan, in the dispatch of the Missionary magazines and Sr. Giuseppina Dones was assigned to this work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The director of the office was Fr. Paolo Manna. Mother Dones met him on 9<sup>th<\/sup> January 1917, a date that she would never forget. [\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9136&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text] M. Dones dedicated herself to the new service with passion, convinced that it is a means to awaken the Missionary zeal in all the Christians. But the Sisters of Reparation considered it as a burdensome commitment that took their valuable time. Therefore, an idea comes to her mind: personnel, who could devote themselves to this work as a vocation, may be able to realize it better. For more than two years she kept this intuition as a secret; and in 1919, for the first time, she spoke it out to Fr. Manna.<\/p>\n<p>In 1925 and 1926 the first attempts to carry out the project failed.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<b> <\/b><strong>The path of Giuseppina Rodolfi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">In the same year, Giuseppina Rodolfi, a 14-year-old girl of Milan in search of her ideal of life, got an intuition of the road she was to tread. One fine day, her father brought home a missionary magazine of the PIME and, seeing it she said to herself &#8220;I have found it, I want to be a Missionary!&#8221;. There were many Missionary Institutes at the time, but she was not attracted by any one of them. By attending assiduously the activities promoted by the Institute for Foreign Missions, together with her brother Armando, she grew in her desire to be part of an organisation that had the same spirit of the PIME.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The protagonists of the History met each other<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Giuseppina Rodolfi met Mother Dones during the Congress of the Friends of the PIME and Mother Dones introduced her to Fr. Manna. Giuseppina had the courage to gather around her the first group of the missionary aspirants and insisted with Fr. Manna so that he may give life to their ideal. But for a long time Fr. Manna did not decide and he put many objections to her invitation. Instead <a href=\"#\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#tragella\"><strong>Fr. Giovanni Battista Tragella<\/strong><\/a>, supported and encouraged Giuseppina in her difficulties.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9140&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>The foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1934 the PIME Fathers, during their General Chapter held in Hong Kong, accepted the proposal to establish a female Institute parallel to the PIME and the project was entrusted to Msgr. Lorenzo M. Balconi, the new Superior General of the Institute. But again they had to wait for two more years. Finally, on 8<sup>th<\/sup> December 1936, Mother Dones and Giuseppina Rodolfi in front of a small altar with the picture of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, in a rented house in Milan, consecrated themselves to God for the Mission.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;0&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;0&#8243; overflow=&#8221;false&#8221;][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Our founders&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|font_size:40px|text_align:center|color:%23ff2e2a|line_height:44px&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Shadows%20Into%20Light%20Two%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;]<div  class=\"kleo-gap\" style=\"height:20px;line-height:20px;\"><\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8321&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;custom_link&#8221; animation=&#8221;animate-when-visible&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;bottom-to-top&#8221; link=&#8221;\/missionarie-immacolata\/storia\/madre-giuseppina-dones\/&#8221;][vc_column_text font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;24px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgb0&#8243;]<a href=\"\/?page_id=8879\"><strong>Mother Dones<\/strong><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;mgt0&#8243;]Foundress[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8325&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;custom_link&#8221; animation=&#8221;animate-when-visible&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;bottom-to-top&#8221; link=&#8221;\/missionarie-immacolata\/storia\/giuseppina-rodolfi\/&#8221;][vc_column_text font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;24px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgb0&#8243;]<a href=\"\/?page_id=8871\"><strong>Mother Igilda<\/strong><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;mgt0&#8243;]Foundress[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8329&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;custom_link&#8221; animation=&#8221;animate-when-visible&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;bottom-to-top&#8221; link=&#8221;\/missionarie-immacolata\/storia\/beato-paolo-manna\/&#8221;][vc_column_text font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;24px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgb0&#8243;]<a href=\"\/?page_id=8867\"><strong>Blessed Paolo Manna<\/strong><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;mgt0&#8243;]Inspirer of the charism[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8332&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;custom_link&#8221; animation=&#8221;animate-when-visible&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;bottom-to-top&#8221; link=&#8221;\/missionarie-immacolata\/storia\/mons-lorenzo-maria-balconi\/&#8221;][vc_column_text font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;24px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgb0&#8243;]<a href=\"\/?page_id=8883\"><strong>Bishop Lorenzo M. Balconi<\/strong><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;mgt0&#8243;]Co-founder[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row padding_bottom=&#8221;100&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1498582283456{padding-right: 20% !important;padding-left: 20% !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text font_weight=&#8221;bold&#8221; el_class=&#8221;sac-btn&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; text-align: center; margin: 0;\"><a href=\"\/?page_id=8875\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two', cursive;\">The story continues: <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; text-align: center; margin: 0;\"><a href=\"\/?page_id=8875\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two', cursive;\">Important dates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div id=\"tragella\" class=\"modal fade\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"modal-dialog\">\n<div class=\"modal-content\">\n<div class=\"modal-header\">\n<p><button class=\"close\" type=\"button\" data-dismiss=\"modal\">\u00d7<\/button><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Father Giovanni Battista Tragella<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"modal-body\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/padre-giovanni-battista-tragella.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Poor missionary-priest&#8230; of paper! The Lord has mercy on us and if He wants to use our poor being, our little flame to illuminate the \u201cworld\u201d a little<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8336 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/padre-tragella-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"Padre Giovanni Battista Tragella\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/padre-tragella-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/mdipime.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/padre-tragella.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fr. Giovanni Battista Tragella was born in Milan in 1885 and entered PIME in 1911 when he was already a diocesan priest in Genoa. After two brief periods as a missionary in Hong Kong (China), in 1912 he was forced to remain definitively in Italy for health reasons.<\/p>\n<p>He was a man of intelligence and he is considered as the founder of the missiological studies in Italy. He was the first professor of Missiology of the Urbanian University in Rome and a member of the preparatory missionary Commission of the Second Vatican Council.<\/p>\n<p>From 1916 he substituted Fr. Manna in charge of the missionary press and of the \u201cMissionary Propaganda\u201d in Milan and collaborated with him in the spreading of the missionary ideal in Italy, not to search for the economic assistance and vocations for his own Institute, but to make known and to love the mission at the service of the whole Church.<\/p>\n<p>He was a historian, journalist and writer and in 1922 he began the &#8220;Missionary Library&#8221; by publishing ten volumes in a year for subscription. The &#8220;Library&#8221; of Tragella with 170 volumes in 24 years represented the most promoted series of missionary books in the history of the Italian missionary publications.<\/p>\n<p>To spread \u201cItalia Missionaria\u201d, a missionary magazine of PIME for children, Tragella founded the &#8220;Little Friends of PIME &#8221; whose first conference was held on 18<sup>th<\/sup>July 1926. In 1928, the initiative expanded and became the PIME Friends Association which is continued today as &#8220;Missionary Congress&#8221; each year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGod, who was inspired you with this plan will also give you the courage and the ability to bring it to completion. You know better than I do, that when we are dealing with works of God it\u2019s He who acts. We can only contribute and even for this we need His infinite kindness and almighty grace\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is he who inspired and accompanied the young <a href=\"\/?page_id=8871\">Giuseppina Rodolfi<\/a> in progressing in her missionary dream; It is he who was interested in the project of the foundation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate with Fr. Manna. It is he who constantly encouraged the young aspirants to persevere and proposed the prayer of initiative for the \u201cMissionary Week\u201d.<br \/>\nHe died in Rome in 1968.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHow we feel that the missionary vocation is truly the most beautiful, the most desirable, the most enviable, the most enrapturing among the things of this world!\u201d, \u201cMy dear friend, you too possess this beautiful thing: take heart!\u201d. Do not let it enclose you but bring it to maturity and to blossom, say to the Lord with insistence, with holy importunity, and try to deserve it more and more by letting the love to grow for the Lord of the harvest, the inspirer of all the apostolic initiatives, the first Person concerned in this great cause\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;color&#8221; bg_color=&#8221;#2c3e50&#8243; padding_top=&#8221;60&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Our history&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|font_size:40px|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff|line_height:44px&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Shadows%20Into%20Light%20Two%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221;]THE BEGINNING[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \u00d7 Consecration to Virgin Mary Deign, O most Holy Virgin, to take this new Con\u00adgregation under your patronage: grant it life and growth so that it may co-operate efficaciously in the expansion of the Kingdom of God on earth and the conversion of the poor infidels. Take us, the weak instruments of this great work, under your protection. Be our Mother and Mistress, take care of us and consider us at your disposal according to the Divine pleasure. Give us humble and generous hearts, ready for any sacrifice for God&#8217;s glory and for the salvation of the infidels. Grant us the spirit of recollection, prayer, union with God and conformity to His divine will. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;color&#8221; bg_color=&#8221;#2c3e50&#8243; padding_top=&#8221;20&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;60&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;A DATE&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|font_size:30px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:36px&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Shadows%20Into%20Light%20Two%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; font_size=&#8221;30px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;36px&#8221; font_weight=&#8221;bold&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgb0&#8243;] 8 December [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; font_size=&#8221;50px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;50px&#8221; font_weight=&#8221;bold&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgt0&#8243;] 1936 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;A PLACE&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|font_size:30px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:36px&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Shadows%20Into%20Light%20Two%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; font_size=&#8221;50px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;50px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgb0&#8243;] Milan n. 15 [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; font_size=&#8221;30px&#8221; line_height=&#8221;36px&#8221; el_class=&#8221;mgt0&#8243;] Cesare Melloni st. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text text_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; el_class=&#8221;w-link&#8221;]A humble beginning: Two women, sr. Giuseppina Dones and the young Giuseppina Rodolfi with a prayer of consacration to the Immaculate Virgin Mary gave rise to a new religious Missionary family in the Church drawing from the same charismatic inspiration of the PIME. And before that moment? Twenty years of waiting, dreams and prayers: a project that took shape slowly. The Protagonists of the History were Sr. Giuseppina Dones, Giuseppina Rodolfi, Foundresses, Fr. Paolo Manna (beatified in 2001), Inspirer of the Charism and Bishop Lorenzo Maria Balconi, the Co-founder.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9144&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1507578322375{margin-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] The research of sr. Giuseppina Dones We are in 1898 and Giuseppina Dones was 18 years old. During the Popular Mission in her Parish at Baggio (Milan), she decided to consecrate herself to God through Missionary life. When her sister Ida entered the Institute of the Sisters of Reparation, Giuseppina accompanied her and she was invited to join. In 1916 the Sisters of Reparation agreed to co-operate with the PIME, the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions of Milan, in the dispatch of the Missionary magazines and Sr. Giuseppina Dones was assigned to this work. The director of the office was Fr. Paolo Manna. Mother Dones met him on 9th January 1917, a date that she would never forget. [\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;9136&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text] M. Dones dedicated herself to the new service with passion, convinced that it is a means to awaken the Missionary zeal in all the Christians. But the Sisters of Reparation considered it as a burdensome commitment that took their valuable time. Therefore, an idea comes to her mind: personnel, who could devote themselves to this work as a vocation, may be able to realize it better. For more than two years she kept this intuition as a secret; and in 1919, for the first time, she spoke it out to Fr. Manna. 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