“Your missionary venture was born of the experience of your founder and his companions who, through the Conferences of St Vincent de Paul of Bl. Frédéric Ozanam, discovered the sad state of workers’ families, deprived of dignity and excluded from social life.”During the 150th anniversary of your foundation, you had the chance to give thanks for the work accomplished and to reread your history, to discover God’s calls, to evaluate the relevance of your Congregation’s response to him in the past two centuries.
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