Rome (Italy). The video with the main stages of the life of Mother Caterina Daghero (1856-1924), Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, first successor of Mother Mazzarello, is online in five languages.
Produced by the Communication sector of the Institute with the photographic and audiovisual support of the General Archive, the video was made on the occasion of the Conference “The long government of an Educative Institute (1881-1924)”, promoted by the FMA Institute and the Study Center on the Daughters of Mary Help of the Pontifical Faculty of Education Science “Auxilium” in the Centenary of the death of Mother Daghero, held on 8 June 2024 in Rome, in the General House.
At the head of the Institute at the age of just 25, Mother Caterina governed with wisdom and motherhood, fulfilling the role of faithful and creative mediator between the first generation of the FMA and the following. From Nizza Monferrato, where she had settled with Mother Mazzarello and the first sisters on 4 February 1879, she was able to consolidate the “spirit of Mornese”, giving it a worldwide diffusion and irradiation. With creative boldness and firm roots in the Charism, she launched the Institute of the FMA into full bloom, to give answers to the many needs of the century that was closing and the new one that was opening.
Mother Catherine Daghero ends her earthly journey on 26 February 2024, in Nizza Monferrato, at 68 years not yet completed, after 43 years of service as Superior General and 49 years of religious life.
At the death of Mother Mazzarello in 1881, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians numbered 166 in 26 houses, located in four countries: Italy, France, Uruguay, and Argentina. At the death of Mother Catherine in 1924, the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians numbered 4,276 in 487 houses, 34 nations, and 4 continents.
Sister Elisa Roncallo defines her thus in writing to her mother, “…is a pearl of a Mother, creature that I would not know how to define, as much I find her according to the heart of God.”
The video about Mother Caterina Daghero is available on the Institute’s YouTube channel in Italian, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Un grazie grande all’Ambito della Comunicazione per questo video di Madre Caterina Daghero, prima successora di Madre Mazzarello. Molto bello e bellissimo trovarlo nella nostra lingua, così le Novizie potranno gioire e capire tutto. Grazie!!!