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The beginnings... with a few dates

Published on September 3, 2019

Automatic translation from Italian, under review.

 1994    

 

9 July

 

Reggio Calabria: Sr. Nunziella arrives in Italy after almost two years in Canada

 

3 August

 

Rome: Meeting with the Secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life

 

 

8 August 

 

Palermo: Meeting with Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo, Archbishop of Palermo

 

  12/26 August

 

Messina (Castanea): Sr. Nunziella writes the Constitutions of the new religious Institute. On the 26th, at Zafferana Etnea (Catania), she hands them over to Cardinal Pappalardo

 

  4 September 

Palermo: Sr. Nunziella moves to the city with a few Sisters
 

  8 September  

 

Palermo: The Sisters find some old apartments to rent for the first Motherhouse
 

  13 September 

 

Rome: Sr. Nunziella submits to the Holy See the Constitutions and the model of the habit, and shows the mold of the medal of the new Institute
 

 25 September 

 

Palermo: Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Saint Rosalia to express gratitude for the wonders God has accomplished
 

  10 October

 

 

Misilmeri (Palermo): The Youth Center is born. Soon many young people, about 800 over the course of the year, begin a systematic journey of human and spiritual formation in contact with the community of Sisters. Among them, 6 girls begin to spend periods in the community and 8 ask, at different times, to live the Center's experience as residents, living together for a time, in order to deepen the life of communion in Christ and to discover their own vocation within the Church and society.
 

 26 November

 

Palermo: At 6:30 p.m., blessing and presentation of the Habit and the Medal, at the Archbishop's Palace, in what is now the Chapel of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sicily
 

 8 December

 

Palermo: Cardinal Pappalardo signs the decree. The religious Institute of the Sisters of Beautiful Love is born
 

 25 December

 

Palermo: Approval of the Constitutions and the Directory 

          

 1995    
 

 

5 January

 

Palermo: At the Motherhouse, His Eminence the Cardinal presides over the election of the First Mother General: Sr. Nunziella is elected unanimously.

 

7 January

 

Palermo: In the Cathedral, the religious profession of the first Sisters of Beautiful Love.

 

 

16 January

 

Palermo: The Motherhouse, on Corso Calatafimi, and the Youth Center of Misilmeri are canonically erected

 

2 February

Palermo: The community of Baida is canonically erected
 

31 March

Zafferana Etnea (CT): A community also arises on the slopes of Mount Etna
 

29 April/3 May

Munich: Sr. Nunziella is in Germany to establish the first community abroad
 

1 June

 Palermo: At the Motherhouse, the Pre-novitiate opens
 

 19-21 June  Capo d'Orlando (ME): Sr. Nunziella is in Capo d'Orlando to establish the community

7/9 July

Palermo (Baida): First meeting of the laity. Several of them, coming from various parts of Italy, gather with Sr. Nunziella to learn more about the spirituality of Beautiful Love.

   9-14 July  

Gibilmanna (PA): the first camps organized by the Youth Center take place. Girls of different ages gather in large numbers with several Sisters and Sr. Nunziella to begin a journey of communion and education in the faith.

Cardinal Pappalardo visits the young women taking part in the second camp and answers their questions
 

 6/13 September  Holy Land: Sr. Nunziella is a pilgrim in the Land of Jesus and Mary
 

 23 November  

Palermo: During the Convention of the Churches of Italy, Cardinal Pappalardo introduces Sr. Nunziella to John Paul II: “Holy Father, I present to you Sr. Nunziella, the Superior General of the Sisters of Beautiful Love, a newly founded Institute... Bless her and the others...!”

    1 December San Cipriano d'Aversa (CE): Inauguration ceremony of the Diocesan Center “Santa Trinità”, entrusted to the Sisters of Beautiful Love

  31 December Palermo: At the Motherhouse, the 1st Assembly of the Institute begins, an annual gathering for all the Sisters