Canossians

The Canossians ( "Daughters of love", Latin: Institutum Filiarum a Charitate, religious symbol FDCC ) are a religious order in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1808 in Verona from the canonized Sister Gabriela Magdalena of Canossa ( 1774-1835 ). 1831 was founded on their own initiative the clerical Congregation of Canossianer.

History

Built in 1808 in the Magdalena district of San Zeno in Verona, a children's home, where many orphans were taken. Here they were kept and were given together with other children lessons. This house was the origin of the Congregation of Canossians. Pope Leo XII. issued on 23 December 1828, the papal approbation for the new foundation. Emperor Franz I of Austria supported the work of Magdalena and appropriated her some old monasteries. The first mission station opened the Canossians on 12 April 1860 in Hong Kong and Macau in 1874.

1879 founded the Canossians a school for girls in Dili, later two more in Manatuto and Baucau. These were in 1890 the only schools for girls in Portuguese Timor. With the founding of the Republic and the introduced separation between church and state, the Canossians Timor had to leave and the schools were left without support.

Apostolic order and organization

The main tasks of the Congregation made ​​in the care of the poor and the sick, training and education, catechesis and preaching the Gospel. Today, social and pastoral tasks in the foreground. The parent company has its seat in the monastery of St. Joseph in Verona; the General House in Rome. In December 2005 the congregation had 354 facilities and had about 3500 members of the Order.

Saints of Congregation

• The foundress Magdalene of Canossa Gabriela was canonized on October 2, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
• On 1 October 2000, the nun Josephine Bakhita of Pope John Paul II canonized. Pope Benedict XVI. praised the saints and the Canossians total in his encyclical Spe Salvi as an example of Christian hope.
• Cajetana ( Gaetan ) Sterni ( 1827-1889 ) spent her postulate at the Canossians and was born on November 4, 2001 beatified by John Paul II .. She is the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Divine Will ( Sisters of Divine Volontà ).