This Congregation was founded in Vic, (Barcelona) Spain on 26th February 1826 by St.Joaquina de Vedruna.
Contemplation of Jesus and direct contact with the reality is what gave birth in Joaquina to a passionate desire to “work for the glory of God and the gfood of the neighbour”. It is this mission that unifies all Vedrunas sending them out to follow in her very footsteps, along her paths, risking all freely and jopyfully that God’s dream for humanity may be realized.
Joaquina was chosen to provide a response to the marginalization of awomen in her taime and she initiated a new form of religious life in the Church marked by a family spirit, a contemplative gift and a simple life of joy.
From their charismatic identity, they like Joaquina respond to the needs of the time with audacity and risk-taking. They reaffirm their preferential option for the poor and their commitment to place themselves at the side of those most neglected, wherever they live and work, allowing themselves to be evangelized by them. They are spread all over the world in 24 countries of Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America. Such was the dream of their foundress, “she could feel her arms stretching our in order to embrace the needs of the whole world.” |