Monument to St. Annibale Maria Di
Francia
work of the sculptor Mario Lucerna
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In
1882 he opened to orphan girls the Small Shelter of the Heart of Jesus
and the Shelter of Immaculate Maria and the year after he opened to
orfanelli the Male Orfanotrofio where those ill-fated boys learned
limbs and trades.
In
1887 it founded a congregation of nuns who called Daughters of the
Divine Zeal that had like first Suor Mother Maria Nazarena Majone. In
the 1895 Orfanotrofio it was transferred in the monastero of the Saint
Spirit, the nuns took to the dress brown of the Carmelitane.
The
earthquake of 1908 made to collapse the dormitory of the male
Orfanotrofio and the chiesetta, in the feminine Orfanotrofio 13
sisters died.
In
1926 she could realize the reconstruction of the wonderful church of
the Rogazione Evangelica dedicated to the Heart of Jesus, destroyed
from the earthquake of 1908.
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The
Sanctuary, today of S. Antonio, occupies the area of the ancient
church, in the Avignon quarter, here, in 1918 (initially a church in
shack, donated from Devout X) Father Hannibal proclamò S. Antonio of
Padova "our untiring benefactor" with the external
registration "Rogate ergo dominum messis, ut mittat operarios in
messem suam".
The
works of the Saint Annibale Maria Di Francia today diffuse are all over
the world entrusted to the missions of the Rogazionisti Fathers. Sant
Annibale Maria Di Francia died the 1 june of 1927.
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In the aisle of left the
uncorrupted body of the Saint is
guarded in an urn
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Papal
nail head for the cononizzazione
of
Father Annibale Maria Di Francia
Omelia
of Giovanni Paolo II
16
May 2004
"If
one loves to me, it will observe my word" (Gv 14,23).
In
these evangelic words we see delineated the spiritual profile of
ANNIBALE
MARIA DI FRANCIA,
that
the love for the Getlteman pushed to dedicate the entire existence to the
spiritual good of the next one.
In
this perspective, it perceived the requirement above all to realize the
evangelico commando:
"Rogate
ergo... Prayed therefore the master of the puttinges who sends laborers in its
puttinges!" (Mt 9,38).
To
the Rogazionisti Fathers and the Nuns Daughters of the Divine Zeal it left the
task to strive with all the forces because the prayer
for
the vocations it was "incessant and universal". This same one I
invite Father Annibale Maria Di Francia turns the young people of our timesynthetizing
it in its it accustoms them exhortation:
"fall in love of Jesus Christ".
From
this providential intuition a great movement of prayer for the vocations is
risen in the Church.
Auspico
of heart that the example of Father Hannibal Maria Of France guides and
supports also in this our such time pastoral action.
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