Anniversaries

Nigerian Claretians Begin Jubilee Year in Style

New Owerri, Nigeria. “Today a great work begins,” with these words of St. Anthony Mary Claret to the five priests gathered around him in a small room of the Seminary of Vic, on 16 July 1849, the life of the Congregation of the Missionary Son of the Immaculate Heart of...

Visit to Fosco and San Felice – 125th Anniversary

Not many people know this place where 125 years ago the first community of the Congregation in Italy was founded, apart from the one in Rome-Via Giulia 163, which was founded in 1885. Fr. Antonio Naval and Brothers Ángel Salas and Julián Escudero, CMFF, left Rome for...

30th Anniversary of the Beatification of the Martyrs of Barbastro

Barbastro, Spain. The events of that October 25 are still very much alive in the memory of many people, but thirty years have passed since 1992. Rome seemed to dress up to welcome the beatification of the fifty-one missionary martyrs of Barbastro (Huesca - Spain), who...

100 years – Building of a temple to the Heart of Mary in Rome approved

In August 1922, the XII General Chapter of the Congregation met in Vic. In Session number 42, September 6, the following was decided: "Regarding the offer made by the Supreme Pontiff to the Congregation (15. 000 m2 in the Parioli area of Rome to build a temple to the...