In the month of April 2021, our congregational website is enriched with its Italian version. We are glad because it has been possible to translate it and, consequently, to make easier the access to the web page for a wider audience and to share with more people its content which, in reality, is nothing else than a reflection of the experience of life and mission germinated in the heart of Luis Amigó and cultivated by people who have been called to keep alive the Charism he received from God.
Both congregations founded by Father Luis Amigó and Ferrer are present in Italy. The Capuchin Tertiary Religious opened their first community in Italy in 1926, when was still alive our Father Founder, who always dreamed and looked with paternal affection at a presence of his sons and daughters in this country; we the Sisters, arrived in 1964, when our General Curia moved to Rome.
Over time, the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters, prompted by the desire to pay attention and to respond to the challenges of every moment and place, we have been opening and closing various presences in Italy, all of them committed to the education and protection of the minors and to the pastoral work with the young people in the local churches.
At present we are in Rome where we have our General Curia and in Galatone (Lecce – Puglia), a small city in the “boot heel”, belonging to “Nazareth” Province. Galatone was the place of the first foundation of our Brothers in Italy and of the origin of most of the Italian Sisters of our Congregation. At present the community offers its service in a daytime Centre that provides an educational space to the children of the quarter where the sisters live and is engaged in other projects in favour of adolescents and their families; all the sisters are collaborating also in the pastoral activity with young people in the parish and in the Diocese and one sister is a religion teacher in a public school.