Help better equip the workshop of a contemplative community In the year 1212, the young and beautiful Chiara Offreduccio di Favarone slipped quietly out of her wealthy parental home, leaving behind all her loved ones, all her safety and security, and all her comfort and wealth in order to embrace a life of poverty, chastity, …
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Project of the Week – Colombia
Subsistence aid for religious sisters in Ipiales The order of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary was founded in Spain in the 15th century. Today its work is mainly focused on Latin America, while most of its convents in Europe are found in Spain. However, it also has convents in India and Africa (Equatorial …