Religious Life
News, updates, and information about women religious communities and their ministries in the Diocese of Cochin
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On March 1, 1774, Magdalene of Canossa, the Foundress of the Canossian Daughters of Charity, was born in Verona (Italy) as the daughter of Marquis Octavis and Marchioness Teresa. S. Szluha. At the age...
While glancing through the history of the Congregation, into the limelight comes Sophie Leeves, a Sister of St. Joseph of the Apparition at Syros, Greec. Later in her religious life she assumed the na...
The Congregation came into being in Italy in 1869 following the appeal made to a pious priest, Rev. Fr. Nicholas Daste, of San Pier d'Arena, Genoa, to look after a group of orphan girls, who had until...
The Congregation of the Sisters Servants of Our Lady of Sorrows found its inception in Florence, Italy, about the year 1854. Then a group of Tertiaries of the Order of the Servants of Mary decided to ...
In 1852 Mrs. Eliswa Vareed Vakayil, mother of a girl child an year and a half old became a widow at the age of 19. The sudden demise of her husband Mr. Vareed Vakayil marked a severe turning point in ...
Fr. Agostino of the Order of Friars Minor, an eloquent and influential preacher moved by Franciscan spirituality, was the one chosen by God to dedicate himself for a particular mission. At the time of...
The Salesian Sisters are the living monuments of Don Bosco's gratitude to 'Mary, Help of Christians' for his vocation to be the bearer of God's love to the indigent and ignored juveniles. Not long sin...
The Daughters of St. Anne is a Congregation which continues the mission of Jesus in the Church. They render charitable services to all, whatever the situation. The Congregation was founded on December...
The successors in the New Testament of Prophet Elias who witnessed the oracular symbol of the Virgin who was to bring forth the Saviour of mankind built the very first shrine in honour of the Blessed ...
The Congregation evolved its essence and imbibed its spirit from the work of Fr. Didacco Bessi, Parish Priest of St. Peter of Iolo, Prato (Italy) on 8th September, 1895. By his initiative and instruct...
The Congregation of the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception is one of Pontifical Rite. Its seat of government is in Portugal and it follows the rules of the Third Order Regular...
The Congregation of the Franciscan Immaculatine Sisters was founded on 8th December, 1881 by the Capuchin, Father Lodovico Acernese, a great estimator of Franciscan Third Order at Pietradefusi (Avelli...
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