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The Salesian Society, founded by Saint John Bosco, takes its distinctive name from its patron, Saint Francis de Sales. The object for which it was founded may be best seen from the opening words of its constitution: "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys to the priesthood." The cradle of the institute may truthfully be said to have been the fields of Valdocco, at that time a suburb but now an integral part of the city of Turin. In the first half of the nineteenth century Italy had not recovered from the disastrous consequences of the false and atheistical philosophical teachings brought into the country at the time of the French Revolution. For this reason education, morality, and religion were then at their lowest ebb. To save the rising generation the Salesian Society was founded. In 1844 Don Bosco began to gather together poor and neglected boys. He found places for them to play in, taught them Catechism and heard their confessions in the open air, afterwards taking them to one of the churches in the city, where he used to say Mass for them and give them holy Communion. These gatherings, called "Festive Oratories", became one of the most important and useful works of the institute in attracting boys. In 1845 the first night-school was opened atValdocco, and became a permanent institution in the course of a year. It proved such a success that a second one was opened (1847) at Porto Nuovo, and a third at Vanchiglia (1849). In the beginning Don Bosco, for lack of personnel, was forced to make use of the older and more advanced pupils, setting them as teachers and monitors over the others, but necessity soon forced him to form a regular and permanent trained staff. Many of his boys, too, began to develop vocations for the priesthood, and became clerics, while still continuing to assist in the work of education. Much opposition was made to the growing institute, but Mgr. Franzoni, then Archbishop of Turin, took it under his protection, and even the king, Charles Albert, who had heard of Don Bosco's work, became its patron, and it steadily grew. It was, however, found impossible, in many cases, to make a permanent impression on the character of the boys during the short time that they were under the influence of the teachers at the festive oratories and the night-schools. A very large number of the boys had not only to earn their living, but had to learn a trade beforehand to enable them to do so. Thus a new class of boys arose -- theboy-artisans -- which constituted the second division of good works in the rising institute. In 1852 the Church of Saint Francis de Sales was completed and consecrated, and surrounding it large schools for the students and workshops for boy-artisans began to rise. During all this time the work was developing, and a and of devoted and efficient teachers slowly emerged from the chaos of evolution. About this time Don Bosco was urged to consolidate and perpetuate his work by forming a religious congregation, and in 1857 he drew up its first set of rules. In the following year he went to Rome to seek the advice and support of his benefactor, Pius IX, and in 1859 he summoned the first chapter of the congregation, and began the Society of Saint Francis de Sales. In 1863 and 1864 colleges were opened at Mirabello, Monferrato, and Lanzo. This was a new step, as hitherto the scope of the congregation had been almost entirely restricted to the poor. In 1874 the Rule and Constitutions of the Society were definitively approved by Pius IX, and the Salesian Society took its place among the orders of the Church. The development of the order was very rapid; the first Salesian house outside of Italy was opened at Nice in 1875. In the same year, the first band of Salesian missionaries was sent to South America, and houses were founded in Argentina and Buenos Ayres. In 1876 the Salesian co-operators were organized for the purpose of assisting in the good works of the congregation. They were enriched with many indulgences by Pius IX. The Figli di Maria Ausiliatrice, or the Sons of Mary, Help of Christians, were founded to assist tardy vocations to the priesthood. In 1877 the "Salesian Bulletin", the official organ of the congregation, made its first appearance, its object being to inform the Catholic world of the good works undertaken by the institute and to beg help to support them. The "Bulletin" is now printed in eight different languages. In 1877 houses were opened in Spezia, Almagro, and Montevideo. In 1879 missionaries were sent to Patagonia, and houses were opened at Navarre, Marseilles, and Saint-Cyr (France). In 1880 the first house in Spain was opened at Utera, and in South America the mission at Viedma, capital of the Rio Negro, was established. In 1883 the first house in Brazil was opened at Nichteroy, and missions were established at Terra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands. In 1887 the first house was opened in Austria at Trent, and in the same year the Salesians established themselves at Battersea in London, England, and a large band of missionaries was sent to Ecuador. On 31 January, 1888, to the great grief of the congregation, Don Bosco died at the age of seventy-two. His successor, Don Rua, continued and developed the work of the congregation, and many more houses were opened in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, and South America. In 1889 houses were established in the Holy Land and in Africa. Between 1894 and 1911 houses have been founded in Mexico, Tunis, Venezuela, Patagonia, Lisbon, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Montpelier, Cape Town, England, Chili, San Salvador, Peru, India, and China. The first mission opened in the United States was at San Francisco in 1898. there are now two in that city, and another at Oakland on the other side of the bay. In New York there were two missions opened respectively in 1898 and 1902. A college was opened at Troy in 1903, but transferred (1908) to Hawthorne, Westchester County, in the State of New York. Although the real object of the Salesian Society is the Christian education of the young, especially of the poorer and middle classes, it does not refuse any work of charity for which it has suitable members. In carrying out its principal work, instead of the old punitive or repressive system, it adopts the preventive one, thus promoting confidence and love among the children, instead of fear and hatred. The success of this method is seen from the number of vocations drawn from its ranks. The young aspirants are imbued with the Salesianspirit even before joining the congregation. One year is spent in the novitiate, after which triennial vows are taken before the tyro is admitted to his final profession. The growth of the congregation may be seen from the fact that it contains about 320 houses, distributed into 34provinicalates, of which 18 are in Europe, and the remaining 16 in America. The houses in Asia and Africa belong to European provinces. There has been no diminution except in France, where most of the houses were suppressed during the regime of persecution under Combes. The houses in Portugal were left untouched during the late change in government. In 1910 the second father general of the congregation died, and was succeeded by Don Albera. The main work of the institute is the education and training of boys divided into two classes, students and artisans. The second branch is the missionary one, and it finds its scope principally in South America and Asia. The third branch is engaged in the education of adults for the priesthood and the fourth is occupied in the diffusion of good Catholic literature. The order obtains its support largely from the generosity of the Salesian co-operators, who, as a third order, contribute largely for this purpose, and to whom the "Salesian Bulletin" is sent monthly, to keep them informed on the progress of the work in distant lands, and to urge them to greater generosity.Labels: Religious Order and Pious Union |
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The Society of Jesus is a religious order founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola. Designated by him "The Company of Jesus" to indicate its true leader and its soldier spirit, the title was Latinized into "Societas Jesu" in the Bull of Paul III approving its formation and the first formula of its Institute ("Regimini militantis ecclesia", 27 Sept., 1540). The term "Jesuit" (of fifteenth-century origin, meaning one who used too frequently or appropriated the name of Jesus), was first applied to the society in reproach (1544-52), and was never employed by its founder, though members and friends of the society in time accepted the name in itsgood sense. The Society ranks among religious institutes as a mendicant order of clerks regular, that is, a body of priests organized for apostolic work, following a religious rule, and relying on alms for their support [Bulls of Pius V, "Dum indefessae", 7 July, 1571; Gregory XIII, "Ascendente Domino", 25 May, 1585]. As has been explained under the title "Ignatius Loyola", the founder began his self-reform, and the enlistment of followers, entirely prepossessed with the idea of the imitation of Christ, and without any plan for a religious order or purpose of attending to the needs of the days. Unexpectedly prevented from carrying out this idea, he offered his services and those of this followers to the pope, "Christ upon Earth", who at once employed him in such works as were most pressing at the moment. It was only after this and just before the first companions broke to go at the pope's command to various countries, that the resolution to found an order was taken, and that Ignatius was commissioned to draw up Constitutions. This he did slowly and methodically; first introducing rules and customs and seeing how they worked. He did not codify them for the first six years. Then three years were given to formulating laws the wisdom of which had been proven by experiment. In the last six years of the Saint's life the Constitutions so composed were finally revised and put into practice everywhere. This sequence of events explains at once how the society, though devoted to the following of Christ, as though there were nothing else in the world to care for, is also excellently adapted to the needs of the day. It began to attend to them before it began to legislate; and its legislation was the codification of those measures which had been proved by experience to be apt to preserve its preliminary religious principle among men actually devoted to the requirements of the Church in days not unlike our own. The Society was not founded with the avowed intention of opposing Protestantism. Neither the papal letters of approbation nor the Constitutions of the order mention this as the object of the new foundation. When Ignatius began to devote himself to the service of the Church, he had probably not even heard of the names of the Protestant Reformers. His early plan was rather the conversion of Mohammedans, an idea which, a few decades after the final triumph of the Christians over the Moors in Spain, must have strongly appealed to the chivalrous Spaniards. The name "Societas Jesu" had been born by a military order approved and recommended by Pius II in 1450, the purpose of which was to fight against the Turks and aid in spreading the Christian faith. The early Jesuits were sent by Ignatius first to pagan lands or to Catholic countries; to Protestant countries only at the special request of the pope and to Germany, the cradle-land of the Reformation, at the urgent solicitation of the imperial ambassador. From the very beginning the missionary labours of the Jesuits among the pagans of India, Japan, China, Canada, Central and South America were as important as their activity in Christian countries. As the object of the society was the propagation and strengthening of the Catholic faith everywhere, the Jesuits naturally endeavored to counteract the spread of Protestantism. They became the main instruments of the Counter-Reformation; the re-conquest of southern and western Germany and Austria for the Church, and the preservation of the Catholic faith in France and other countries were due chiefly to their exertions. Labels: Religious Order and Pious Union |
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The Foundation and Rebirth | 1979-1989 / 1990-2004
The Beginning of the Order in the Philippines
And they prepared the ground…
The early Franciscan Conventual missionaries who set foot on the shore of the ‘Pearl of the Orient’ prepared the ground for the founding of the Franciscan Conventuals in the Philippines and be a part of the work of evangelization. We will mention three prominent holy Franciscan Conventual missionaries who came here in the Philippines. They are Blessed Odorico from Friuli, Italy, Venerable Giambattista Lucarelli of Pesaro, Italy and St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe a Polish Friar and Martyr during World War II in the concentration camp of Auschwitz.
In the booklet Blessed Odorico from Friuli, Italy, of Fr. Luigi Malaocco of the Stigmatine Fathers, relates his discovery that the first Mass in the Philippines is not actually in Limasawa or in the Visayan province or any other place in the Philippines but in Bolinao, Pangasinan, the northern part of Luzon. It is about the year 1324 when he arrived here. He must also be the First Franciscan who set his foot in the Philippines. We can say that Blessed Odorico is the first evangelizer in the Philippines. Mother nature through the “bagyo” (typhoon) led him to the place of Bolinao Bay (Pangasinan) to take refuge before going to his missionary trips to China. Antonio Del Castillo, professor and writer at Lingayen University said that
In 1324, after landing and taking refuge in Bolinao during stormy weather, Father Odorico, an Italian Priest of the Franciscan Order, celebrated a thanksgiving Mass. In the said Mass in Bolinao, he baptized many of these Malayan immigrants.
Another Conventual Franciscan missionary to the Philippines who followed Blessed Odorico was the Venerable Giambattista Lucarelli of Pesaro, Italy in the year 1578. He was together with the OFM Alcantarins who came to evangelize the Philippines. He was one of the Founders of Agoo, La Union in the Philippines. This was the earliest recorded account of the Conventual Franciscan presence in the Philippines. It was recorded as early as 2nd of June 1578, when the Venerable Father arrived in Manila. He simply availed himself as a missionary in Pangansinan and Ilocos, at Agoo, La Union. Later he established a church that stands to this day.
On May-June 1936, Fr. St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, returned for the Provincial Chapter in Cracow, Poland where he is appointed guardian of Niepokalanow on July 16, 1936, leaving Japan for good. But before reaching Poland, on the 30th of May 1936, St. Maximilian M. Kolbe was able to visit Manila in a very short time. He offered the Mass and prayed for the future missionary presence of the Conventuals in the Philippines and that the Immaculata whom he loved so much would always triumph on this land known to be “il pueblo amante di Maria”. It was His Holiness Pope John Paul II who called him the “Apostle of the Difficult Age”, and “Martyr of Charity”. It was indeed a blessing to have the saintly presence of Father Kolbe even for a short a time the. His missionary undertaking to win the whole world to the Sacred Heart through Mary Immaculate and his Franciscan-Marian way of life had inspired the Franciscan Conventual Fathers to establish the Order here in the Philippines in August 1979. These fathers propagate the movement of St. Maximilian Kolbe here in the Philippines called the “Militia of the Immaculate” as one of their primary apostolate and way of evangelization.
Establishing the Order
It was in November 1977, when Fr. Philip Blaine, General Secretary of the Mission of the Order visited the Philippines to see the possibility of our Conventual Franciscan presence. The Minister General, Fr. Vitale Bommarco, enthusiastic about the situation of the local Church and the possibility of the Order here, worked out the opening of the Mission in the Philippines. The mission was entrusted to the Province of Naples.
Arrival of the Missionaries in the Philippines
The group of the first four missionaries to the Philippines arrived in Manila on the 24th August 1979. These four friars of the Casa Mariana in Frigento, a community belonging to the Province of Naples, who were accompanied by their Minister Provincial of the Province of Naples, Antonio M. D’Apice, were Friar Gabriel M. Pellettieri, Friar Rosario M. D’Aniello, Friar Francesco M. Romanazzi and Friar Carlo M. Iellici. They were accommodated as guests of the OFMs in Our Lady of the Angels Seminary, Bagbag, Novaliches, Q.C. until October 15, 1979 while preparing for their pastoral work and establishment of their religious house. Later, in December 29, 1979, the Parish that they helped to establish was entrusted to them. Under the patronage of St. Francis and Sta. Quiteria, they served as pastors for four years, while preparing as well to establish and open a Seminary.
The Birth of the First Formation House
In 2nd June 1982 came the birth of the first formation house, a place to build a family of the Franciscan Conventuals in the Philippines under the guidance and protection of Mary. This house, which was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, is called Immaculata Formation House located in Greenfields I Subdivision, Novaliches, Quezon City. On this year they started accepting candidates.
Immaculata Formation House | Novaliches, Quezon City
The first formation house in Novaliches, Quezon City was constructed in October 1981 and was blessed in June 2, 1982. The construction of the Conventual Church, on the other hand, entitled to the Immaculate Conception began in November 24, 1984 and was consecrated by his Eminence Jaime Card. Sin, D.D. in December 31, 1989. This Formation house has two objectives: the formation of seminarians and the Marian apostolate patterned after St. Maximilian’s Niepolakalanow (City of the Immaculate).
St. Joseph Formation House | Tagaytay City
This second formation house was officially established in June 1, 1987 and was blessed in February 2, 1988. The house was dedicated under the patronage of St. Joseph, the Husband of Mary. His Excellency Most Rev. Felix Perez, DD, Bishop of the Diocese of Imus, consecrated St. Joseph Church on May 20, 1988. The objective of the convent is the formation of the Postulants and the Novices.
St. Maximilian Friary | Parañaque City
This third Formation house was established and its cornerstone was laid and blessed in August 15, 1988. The house and its chapel were dedicated to St. Maximilian M. Kolbe. It was blessed and consecrated by His Excellency Jaime Card. Sin, DD in August 14, 1991. The objective of this house is the formation of the clerics (students of philosophy and theology) and the center of the Philippine Custody of the Franciscan Conventuals.
The Traccia Way of Life and Movement
The Traccia way of life was the lifestyle and formation used by the first Conventual Franciscan missionaries here in the Philippines for the friars and candidates. It is a particular Franciscan-Marian way of life based on the Traccia Rule and Formation Document called “Traccia: A Marian Plan of Franciscan life.”
This is a movement within the Conventual branch of the Franciscan Order that took its inspiration from St. Maximilian Franciscan-Marian way of life and Niepokalanow formation. “Traccia” is an Italian word that means “Plan of life.” The first Traccia friary was established on the feast of Our Lady of the Angels, August 2, 1970, in Frigento Friary, Italy. The entire Traccia formation program has been established most especially in the Province of Naples particularly in Casa Mariana or Frigento Friary and in the Philippines. The Traccia document was given only a permission ad experimentum, and never enjoyed an official confirmation from the Order since several items in the said document were not in consonance with the Constitutions of the Order.
Controversy and Suspension of the Traccia
The extraordinary chapter of the Province of Naples in February 1989 marked the beginning of certain difficulties. Various proposals were approved regarding the Frigento Maria Experience. However, there are needs for certain changes and modification to comply with the decisions approved in the Extraordinary General Chapter of 1986 and that of the Provincial Chapter. But the friars there were unwilling to accept them. It was later discovered they wanted to form a new religious institute. The Traccia became their fundamental norm of life. The crisis of the Order in Frigento affected much the Philippine mission since it was entrusted to the Province of Naples particularly coming from the Friary known as Casa Mariana in Frigento, Italy. The suspension of the Traccia formation program in the Philippine mission became a necessity to give way to the proposed values and formation of the Order based on the approved documents: Constitution, Franciscan Discipleship and the General and Provincial Statutes.
Division in the Order
This growing “Marytown” at Frigento in the Province of Naples, responsible for starting the mission in the Philippines continue to live the Traccia Rule and Formation program untouched by any Chapter or documents of the Order. They attracted friars to their austere life and total consecration to Mary Immaculate in imitation of St. Maximilian. However, they did not share the Saint’s devotion to the Order and obedience. They, including our first four missionaries in the Philippines with the exception of some, left the Order and initiated the diocesan religious institute called the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, established by the Archbishop of Benevento, Italy in June 23, 1991.
Beginning a New Phase in the Order
New Set of Missionaries
Thanks to God and the collaboration within the Order spearheaded by the General Delegate, Fr. Albert M. Sammut, the Mission was saved and won over. In 1989 the Mission was elevated to the status of Provincial Custody. New life was given by the coming of new missionaries. Five Friars, who came from other missions or had other responsibilities, were instruments of this rebirth. They were Friar Leonardo M. Mollica and Friar Gerard M. Scioscia (Naples), Friars Francisco Faldani and Giancarlo Faldani, (Padua-Korea) Rocco M. Cipollone (Abruzzo - Korea), and Friar Vincent M. Lanchendro (USA-Japan). Other missionaries in the following years came: Friar. Tomaso M. Ursidio (Genoa), Friar Thomas Calleja (Malta), and Friar Paolo M. Primavera (Naples).
Houses of Formation and Apostolate
- Immaculata Apostolate and Retreat House
- Saint Joseph Formation House
- Saint Maximilian M. Seminary
- San Agustin Convent
- Saint Anthony of Padua Friary
- Bulacan Eco-Spiritual Center
Apostolate
The Order is engaged in other apostolate. The Archdiocese of Manila has entrusted to our care two parishes namely, the Parish of San Agustin in Moonwalk, Parañaque City (1996) and the Parish of Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe (2000).
The media apostolate of the Order, which was limited only in publication of the Marian magazines, The Knight of the Immaculate, is now updating to the signs of the times and the need for fast communication. The printing apostolate has been temporarily suspended to prepare skilled friars and upgrade printing facilities. As of the moment the Custody makes use of a website to promote the media apostolate.
The Order has a mission partners in the laity. The apostolate of the laity is a sharing in the integral evangelization and salvific mission of the Church. They have the special vocation to make the Church present and fruitful in those places and circumstances where it is only through them that she can become the salt of the earth (Lumen Gentium 33). The friars continue to promote the Franciscan vocation of brotherhood and gospel way of living among the laity. They assist the Secular Franciscan Order, the lay counterpart in the Franciscan movement in their formation and spiritual needs. The Marian Movement of the Militia Immaculata (M.I.) and the Youth Militia Immaculate (YMI) is rich ground for apostolate. A more incisive and consistent promotion of this movement is needed. With these two apostolic movements of Franciscan and Marian in character, the laity who is inspired to respond to the spirit call to these movements will realize their role in the church for the integral evangelization of the people.
“There is no peace without justice and creation would take good care of you if you take good care of creation.” The friars are involved also in the promotion of Peace, Justice and Safeguarding of creation. There is an Inter-Franciscan movement on JPIC here in the Philippines in which we, Conventuals, are also involved. This is actually a call to every Franciscan to be peacemakers and defender of ecology.
Formation Directory
The Extraordinary Custodial Chapter of 1998 approved ad experimentum the Formation Directory made by the Commission of Formation. It was approved by the Chapter and was in line with the documents of the Order. It has touched well the culture of the Filipino Friars in order to be Men of God, of fraternal life and of mission. The Directory of Formation is guided by the vision-mission statement of the Filipino Custody formulated in the Ordinary Chapter of 1997. It had girded the friars and the students to a balanced and well-rounded Conventual Franciscan Filipino formation. Since it was very much focused only to the formation a revision has been carried out with an intent to include the expanding reality of the Order in the various sphere of our Conventual Franciscan life: formation, fraternal life, apostolate and economy.
Envisioning the Order | Common Vision-Mission
In 2003, a group of friars were commissioned by the Custody to facilitate the making of the vision-mission of the Custody. They went to every community of the Custody in facilitating the vision-mission making. The idea was to involve the whole Custody in making such a statement; thus, there will be a great owning of the vision-mission. In the December 2003 retreat of all the Solemnly Professed of the Custody in Baguio City, the vision-mission of the Custody was formulated and celebrated. Thus, the Custody was given direction and reference for all the Friars.
Looking Toward the Future
We, Franciscan Conventuals, are community of disciples and lesser brothers in Christ, thus, we are not simply the “sum of individuals” who composed it, a new and diverse reality. One’s choice of God (and then his prayer, his charity, his poverty, etc.) united, shared, enriched with that of the others is something new and diverse in respect from his individual choice.
With clarity and determination, we believe this fundamental option: to bear witness together that God is the first and the center. This option is decisive, precedes and inspires each of our activities, whether it is apostolic or, charitable, social, educative character, or some other sort. We bear witness together in living the vision-mission in communion with each one. And the Gospel would tell us: “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (Jn 13:35).
We have anchored our 25th Anniversary Celebration theme: “A Christocentric and Marian Fraternity Journeying Together for the Renewal of the Church and Communion with Everyone” to the very vision-mission of the Custody. And with this clarion call for every member of the Custody we move forward hopeful, renewed and focused to be witnesses of God’s creative and saving love for all!
List of Missionaries Who Had Sown the Seed
First Period: Foundation
- Fr. Gabriel M. Pellettieri, 1979-1990
- Fr. Rosario M. Daniello, 1979-1990
- Fr. Carlo M. Iellici, 1979-1990
- Fr. Francesco M. Romanazzi, 1979-1980
- Fr. Antonio M. Gagliotta, 1983-1990
- Fra Pietro M. D’Andria, 1983-1997 (remained in the Order)
+ died Nov. 9, 1997 in the Philippine Mission - Fr. Mariano M. Del Piano, 1983-1988 (remained in the Order)
- Fr. Tiziano M. Cislaghi, 1985-1988
- Fr. Alphonsus M. Sutton, 1985-1989
- Fr. Francis M. Pimental, 1987
- Fr. Daniel M. Gallucci, 1987-1988
- Fr. Thomas M. Huff, 1987-1990
Transition Period
- Fr. Albert Ma Sammut, 1989-1997
(General Delegate and 1st Custos)
Second Period: The Rebirth and Growth
- Fr. Rocco Ma. Cippolone, 1990-2001
- Fr. Gerard Ma. Scioscia, 1990
- Fr. Francis Ma. Faldani, 1990
- Fr. Giancarlo Ma. Faldani, 1990
- Fr. Leonardo Ma. Mollica, 1990-2002
- Fr. Vincent Ma. Lanchendro, 1991-2000
- Fr. Duello Lella, 1992 (Abruzzo)
- Fr. Paolo Ma. Primavera, 1994-1997
- Fr. Tommaso Ma. Arsidio, 1994-1998
- Fr. Thomas Calleja, 1996-2001
- Fr. Michele Ma. Alfano, 1997-2001
- Fr. Rocco Ma. Rizzo, 1998-2001
Written by: Fra John Vianney M. Acosta, OFMConv.
Edited by:
Fra Stephen M. Bejo, OFMConv.
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was a little-known bookseller in the city of Granada,
Spain. He was struggling to put his life back together
again after spending a period as a patient in the psychiatric
wing of the Royal Hospital, where he was placed after
experiencing a religious conversion so dramatic that many
people though he was insane. | | He was homeless and disillusioned, yet he felt a strong attraction to improve the situation of the many men, women and children, who like himself, were homeless and marginalized from the mainstream of society. John was fortunate that he had friends who respected him. One of these friends allowed John to shelter from the bitter cold of winter nights in the porchway of his house. | | Sensitive to the suffering and pain of the many homeless people and travellers who sought shelter in doorways of where they could find it, John began to bring those who were sick and weak and those unable to cope, to share his accommodations in the porch of the house of his friend, Venegas. This was the stark and simple, yet profoundly beautiful beginning of the work that today still bears his name. The man, John, huddling with his cold, hungry and weary companions in one corner of the porchway of Venegas’ house had no idea of the movement he was founding. St. John of God Services has continued to strive to carry this love, care and compassion to people down the centuries. |  | | The modest porch of the home of the Venegas family was the first place where John gave shelter to the poor and rejected. | | Hospitality is the name given to the great gift of care and welcome which John gave
to the poor, the homeless, the sick and the dying and many others in the city of
Granada over 460 years ago.
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