Blessed Chiara Bosatta, Guanellian educator
A disciple of Saint Luigi Guanella, Chiara combined intense prayer with effective educational action.
È fundamental stone of Guanellian works
by Don Gabriele Cantaluppi
LThe girls were waiting for their catechism lesson and hoped to be assigned to Sister Chiara's class. They wanted it because her good spirit knew how to attract; she was welcoming and serene in understanding their problems and when they saw her they ran towards her joyfully. Prayers, songs, moments of play or the preparation of theatrical performances enlivened the days in his company.
Prayerful memory of Msgr. Bacciarini
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Nwe willingly return to the bright Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Lugano or to the dim light of its crypt, to feel the presence of Msgr. Aurelio Bacciarini, holy disciple of Don Guanella, zealous bishop of Lugano, patient martyr through many conflicts and illnesses. We also returned there last July 1st, close to the anniversary of his death, which occurred on June 27th 1935, to celebrate a solemn Mass in memory and invocation of him.
Under the mantle of Saint Joseph
by Don Gabriele Cantaluppi
It was Don Guanella who named some of his works after Saint Joseph.
After him his religious have continued to dedicate houses and parishes to him and to spread the Pious Union in the various parts of the world where Guanellian charity has reached.
Don Guanella in the operetta In the month of flowers of 1884, in which he offers a reflection on the Madonna for each day of the month of May, reaching the twelfth day he explains the perseverance of Mary and Joseph in search of accommodation in Bethlehem, on the eve of the birth of Jesus. He concludes by urging us not to resign ourselves to adverse cases in life and to exercise patience, because "patience is learned more by practicing it in action than by learning it from books".