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.