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CongregationMother Elisa was a woman of vision who saw the spiritual and material needs of humanity and had the determination and courage to make her dream of helping all peoples a reality. She envisioned a missionary community of religious women who would spread the good news of Jesus Christ and would help alleviate the sufferings of people everywhere. As a result she founded the Daughters of St. Mary of Leuca
WHO WE ARE
The Daughters of St. Mary of Leuca is an international congregation founded by MOTHER ELISA MARTINEZ in the year 1938, through the inspiration of the Blessed Virgin. The congregation’s site of origin is located near the Sanctuary of our Lady “Santa Maria di Leuca”, so the bishop who granted the first approval requested the Mother Foundress to take this title for her daughters. The congregation obtained the Pontifical approval of His Holiness Pope Pius XII in the year 1943. Our congregation is a growing family of Sisters of various nationalities, bound together by a simple “Rule of Life” and the common desire to uphold and live the Gospel in the spirit of love and service. The DML Sisters, like Jesus, continue to search and reach out to the “Poor of Jahweh”: the helpless, the weak, the needy, and those with suffering of any nature. We fulfill our apostolate in social works, with preference for the little ones mentioned in the Gospel, to whom Jesus says He was sent (Lk.4,16) so as to be one with them. “Whatever you have done to the least of my brothers you have done to Me” (Mt.25,40). |
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