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History of the Congregation

THE BEGINNINGS
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During his retreat on April 18, 1905 , Eustachio Montemurro, reflecting on the good he has done to Angela Cavalluzzi, a young orphan girl of 22, whom he has helped in her studies while he was the president of the Association of Charity, inspired him to found an Institute for women for the education of young boys and girls. 

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FIRST COMMUNITY

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​On 1 May 1908, Chiara Terrible, one of his penitents and Maria Lucia Visci began community life in Palazzo Guida in Porta Reale in Gravina. With these two women willing to start a rudimentary form of religious life, Montemurro gave beginning to the Institute of the Daughters of the Sacred Side for the devotion to the Sacred Heart and for the education and instruction of the young girls through trade schools and the teaching of catechism to people of every class.

TIMELINE

01-01-1857          He is born to Giuseppe Montemurro and Giulia Barbarossa in Gravina (province of Bari)
 
1875-1881            He studies at the University of Naples where he majors in Mathematics and Natural Sciences and 
                               receives a Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery
 
1882-1902 
           He exercises the medical profession and is active in social-political and assistance-charitable                                               activities
 
01-01-1903          He enters the seminary to begin his formation to the priesthood
 
09-24-1904          He is ordained a priest in the Cathedral of Gravina
 
11-21-1907          He establishes the Congregation of the Little Brothers of the Blessed Sacrament for Eucharistic 
                              worship and to help pastors with their ministry
 
05-01-1908          He begins the Congregation of the Daughters of the "Sacro Costato" to atone for the sins against the                                  Sacred Heart of Jesus and for the education of young children and teens.
 
04-29-1910          Four Daughters of the "Sacro Costato" take the religious habit for the first time in Minervino
 
12-11-1910          Four Little Brothers of the Most Blessed Sacrament don the religious vestments for the first time in
                              Bisciglie
 
02-21-1911          The Sacred Congregation of Religious decrees the dissolution of the institutes where the infiltration of
                               a so-called pseudo-mysticism was suspected and sends the Most Reverend Giovanni Del Papa as
                               apostolic visitor
 
03-30-1911          The Most Reverend Del Papa reports to the Congregation for Religious that the institutes should be 
                               preserved
 
06-23-1911          Bishop Zimarino promulgates the Decree of Suppression of the Congregation of Religious and orders                                  Father Eustachio to close the houses existing in his diocese
 
08-1911              Canon Di Francia accepts the responsibility of guiding the Daughters of the "Sacro Costato" in the                                         Diocese of Andria, Potenza, and Venosa and welcomes the Little Brothers of the Most Blessed                                             Sacrament into his house of studies in Oria
 
01-1914              Father Eustachio moves to the Valley of Pompei where he carries out a fruitful and intense ministry for                              nine years
 
01-02-1923          He dies in Pompeii and is buried in the cemetery of Scafati

12-20-1936          His mortal remains are transferred from Scafati to the chapel of the Missionary Sisters of the "Sacro                                  Costato" and the Sorrowful Mother in Gravina
 
04-14-1981         The General Council of the Missionary Sisters of the "Sacro Costato" resolves to initiate the preliminary
                             work to petition the introduction of the cause for the canonization of Fr. Eustachio Montemurro
 
11-09-1987          The General Council of the Missionary Sisters of the "Sacro Costato" invites Father Alfredo Marranzini,                                 S.J., to be the procurator of the cause for the canonization
 
08-10-1992          The Holy See grants permission to introduce the cause
 
11-21-1992          His Eminence Cardinal Michele Giordano opens the first public session for the cause of canonization
 
06-23-1995          His Eminence Cardinal Michele Giordano concludes the session of the diocesan Inquiry for the                                            Canonization
 
03-09-1996          The Congregation for the Cause of the Saints declared the validity of the Diocesan Inquiry
 
10-31-2002          The Positio Super Virtutibus is handed over to the Congregation for the Cause of the Saints

At Present, we are in...

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