Religious Life
News, updates, and information about men religious communities and their ministries in the Diocese of Cochin
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St. Leonard Murialdo, born on October 26, 1828, in Turin, Italy, instituted the Congregation of St. Joseph, on the feast of their heavenly patron, St. Joseph, on March 19, 1873 in Turin. The members o...
The Congregation of the Passionists was founded by Paul Francis Daneo, popularly known as Paul of the Cross, in 1720. Born in Overdo, Northern Italy in 1694, Paul had great devotion to the passion of ...
Since his conversion, St. Francis of Assisi started to 'live' the Gospel in its literal and true sense. Very soon he had some followers and in the year 1210 the Order started in its official sense aft...
The Community of the Missionary Sisters of Incarnation was started first in the year 1961, with a small group of three members who began their Apostolic work by remaining in Frascati. Slowly and stead...
The Carmelites trace the root of their tree to the Mount Carmel in Palestine where Prophet Elijah and his disciples, said to be their forefathers, lived. These 'Sons of the Prophet' who continued thei...
The Religious Congregation, Friars Minor, was founded by St. Francis of Assisi in 1209, intending that his own life and that of his friars should be the most radical response to the Gospel message. De...
The Augustinian way of life took it's sorted shape from the mind of St. Augustine himself after his own conversion and subsequent return to Tagaste in the year 388. There, along with Posidius and a fe...
The Congregation was founded by St. Peter Nolasco in Barcelona, Spain, on August 10, 1218 to collect alms to pay for the release of Christians, who, being slaves held by the Saracen Muslims, were in d...
The Congregation founded by Venerable Leo John Dehon in 1878, at St. Quentin, France, is dedicated to fostering the devotion to and the services in the name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Since then it...
St. John Bosco (1815-1888), known as the Father and Friend of youth, is the Founder of the Order. As a young priest he found many young men in the city of Turin who were turning criminals due to the l...
St. Joseph Calasanz (1557-1648), a Spanish priest born in the Diocese of Urgel, started the first "free, public and popular school of Europe" at Santa Dorotea in Rome in 1597. At San Pantaleo, togethe...
