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A Celebration of Faith and Joy: Profession and Renewal of Vows for the Daughters of Saint Mary of Leuca
Rome, October 5, 2025 — A wave of joy and hope flooded the General House...
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August 15, 2025 – 84th Anniversary of the Birth of the Congregation and Perpetual Profession of 9 Sisters
August 15, 2025, is a day of particular joy and gratitude for our Congregation: we...
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Celebration of June 1st – Closing of the Diocesan Phase of the Cause of Canonization of the Servant of God Cardinal Gilberto Agustoni and Anniversaries of Religious Profession of our Sisters
Celebration of June 1st – Closing of the Diocesan Phase of the Cause of Canonization...
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CONSECRATED VOCATION – A BLURRED CALL IN ORDINARY LIFE
CONSECRATED VOCATION – A BLURRED CALL IN ORDINARY LIFE Today, I would like to share...
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Good Friday Reflection: Who am I before the Cross?
WHO AM I BEFORE THE CROSS? Today is Good Friday, the day when the entire...
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Loreggiola on a pilgrimage: a journey of faith and love to the tomb of Blessed Mother Elisa Martinez
Faith and love of the pilgrims of Loreggiola March 26, 2025 – An encounter of...
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Birthday of our twin Sisters: Sister Sofia and Sister Fernanda. 90 years
TWIN SISTERS – ONE CALLING, ONE LIFE OF DEDICATION In gratitude to Sr. Sofia and...
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Programme of the Celebrations for the Beatification of Mother Elisa Martinez
Programme of the Celebrations for the Beatification of Mother Elisa Martinez Foundress of the Congregation...
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The habit – the sign of Consecration to Mary
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Prayer for the FSML Institute
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A Celebration of Faith and Joy: Profession and Renewal of Vows for the Daughters of Saint Mary of Leuca
Rome, October 5, 2025 — A wave of joy and hope flooded the General House...
Vocations
CONSECRATED VOCATION – A BLURRED CALL IN ORDINARY LIFE
CONSECRATED VOCATION – A BLURRED CALL IN ORDINARY LIFE Today, I would like to share...
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Birthday of our twin Sisters: Sister Sofia and Sister Fernanda. 90 years
TWIN SISTERS – ONE CALLING, ONE LIFE OF DEDICATION In gratitude to Sr. Sofia and...
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MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE 2023 WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS
Vocation: Grace and Mission Dear brothers and sisters, dear young people! This is now the...
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Come and join us
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You come too…!
Following Jesus in the religious life is a beautiful adventure of the spirit. It is...
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World day of consecrated life 2022
In our world, where the traces of God often seem to be lost, a strong...
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Mother Elisa - Foundress
The First Anniversary of the Beatification of Blessed Elisa Martinez
June 25, 2024 marks the first Anniversary of the Beatification of our beloved Mother Foundress,...
Mother Elisa - Foundress
PRAYER FOR THE CANONIZATION OF BLESSED ELISA MARTINEZ
O God, thank you for having called Blessed Elisa Martinez to your Church; She followed...
Mother Elisa - Foundress
MOTHER ELISA, A REFLECTION OF GOD’S GLORY AND MERCY
Homily in the Mass of Blessed Elisa Martinez, Basilica of Leuca, 8 February 2024. Dear...
Mother Teresa Lanfranco
Mother Teresa Lanfranco, a sanctity without fanfare
Mother Teresa Lanfranco, a sanctity without fanfare Most Reverend Mother General, Sister Ilaria Nicolardi, dear...
Mother Teresa Lanfranco
Prayer for the Glorification on Earth of the Servant of God Mother Teresa Lanfranco
O Father, in the mysterious design of love you have arranged that the Servant of...
Mother Teresa Lanfranco
Opening of the Diocesan Inquiry of Mother Teresa
Nardò Gallipoli – As already announced in these pages of piazzasalento, the “silent and noiseless”...
Card. Gilberto Agustoni
Presentation of the book “SHEPHERD ACCORDING TO THE HEART OF CHRIST”
Saturday, March 1, 2025 – 4:30 p.m. At the General House of the Daughters of...
Card. Gilberto Agustoni
Centenary of the birth of Cardinal Gilberto Angelo Agustoni
It is a whole life at the service of the universal Church. A life lived...
Card. Gilberto Agustoni
Cardinal Agustoni, a life spent between law and the formation of the clergy
On 13 January 2017, Swiss Cardinal Gilberto Agustoni died in Rome at the age of...
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In the Father's House
THE DEPARTED SISTERS 12
DICEMBER 03/2022 SR. LUCREZIA DE SIMONE 04/2015 SR. MARIA LUISA CERA 10/2001 SR. ADDOLORATA OBAL...
In the Father's House
THE DEPARTED SISTERS 11
NOVEMBER 01/2008 SR. CAROLINA VALLO 10/2018 SR. LEONARDA RUGGIERO 18/2022 SR. INES BIDETTI 20/2008 SR....
In the Father's House
THE DEPARTED SISTERS 10
OCTOBER 02/2008 SR. GREGORIA FABIANO 22/1989 SR. CELINA CUSCELA 09/2012 SR. NERINA OCON 13/2004 SR....
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August 15, 2025 – 84th Anniversary of the Birth of the Congregation and Perpetual Profession of 9 Sisters
August 15, 2025, is a day of particular joy and gratitude for our Congregation: we...
Events
Celebration of June 1st – Closing of the Diocesan Phase of the Cause of Canonization of the Servant of God Cardinal Gilberto Agustoni and Anniversaries of Religious Profession of our Sisters
Celebration of June 1st – Closing of the Diocesan Phase of the Cause of Canonization...
Events
Good Friday Reflection: Who am I before the Cross?
WHO AM I BEFORE THE CROSS? Today is Good Friday, the day when the entire...
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Brief Biography of Mother Elisa Martinez, Foundress of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Leuca (FSML)
The Servant of God, Mother Elisa Martinez, was born in the town of Galatina (Lecce-Southern Italy) on 25 March 1905. On March 1938, she founded the Pious Union of the Sisters of the Immacolate Conception (Pia Unione delle Suore dell’Immacolata).
The charism of the Congregation: “Whatever you have done unto the least of my brothers and sisters, you have done unto me” (Mt 25: 40). She devoted her time and energy to the outcast, prisoners, unmarried mothers and abandooned children trough Parish Catechesis and the teaching of young children.
