In Your Providence is our Hope

The Congregation of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence was founded in a small town in Northern Italy, in 1881 by St. Louis Guanella. Impelled by the love of Christ he spent his entire life and energies for the needy. Father Guanella also founded the Servants of Charity, a congregation for men. Co foundress with Fr. Guanella of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, was Sister Marcellina Bosatta.

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The Congregation’s statutes obligate the sisters to “dedicate themselves in a particular manner to the care of those whom the Gospel calls Little, that is the weak, the needy, the lonely, the abandoned, the aged, the differently abled and youth, whom they find in particular need, and announce the “good news” to them through the exercise of the Works of Mercy
and faith in the Providence of the Father.” 

Father Guanella had great confidence in the Sisters and encouraged them with these words: “Blessed are you, Daughters of St. Mary, whose only aim is the glory of God and the Salvation of your souls and the souls of your neighbors’…if you make it your greatest aim to become imitators of Jesus Christ, good example will spontaneously gush forth from all your being, and from you will emanate a life-giving force for all those who depend on you, or share with you your life and vocation.”