Magdalene of Canossa (1774-1835), our Foundress, received from the Spirit the gift of penetrating deeply into the riches of God’s love in its purest and most sublime expression: Jesus Crucified.

        The understanding of this “greatest love” formed within her the heart of a mother and the ardor of an apostle.

      Magdalene of Canossa began her Works of Charity with a few companions on May 8, 1808 in Verona, Italy. She obtained pontifical approval for the Institute of the Daughters of Charity, which was already established in Venice, Milan, Bergamo and Trent on December 23, 1828. She was beatified in Rome on December 8, 1941.

        On October 2, 1988 Pope John Paul 11 proclaimed Magdalene “Saint”, a prophet of Charity. Magdalene, with her life, has written a significant page in the history of humanity, a page that speaks of her personal journey in the Spirit, and above all of the Greatest Love of Christ in a broken world.

       “God alone. God alone. God Alone
and our Mother Mary!”