Venerable Mother Seraphina the Foundress of CFMSS
Venerable Mother Seraphina was born on 7 th October 1853 in Italy to Frederic Farolfi
and Ottilia as the third born. From childhood onwards, she was intelligent, imaginative
vivacious,cheerful,daring deligent,resolute, optimistic, charitable, firm and confident
in her thoughts and dealings. Her childhood desire was to become a martyr for Christ
in mission lands...
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The Indian Mission of the CFMSS was inaugurated on 3 February in 1901, when Venerable
Mother Seraphina sent out the first batch of CFMSS Missionaries to India. The Mission
is built on the sacrifices of the pioneer missionaries and their successors as they
slogged determinately against all odds, battling sickness, death, scorching heat,
deprivation, loneliness, rejection etc.,for half a century relying solely on Divine
Providence. As the houses at Sardhana (1901 – 1907), Meerut (1903 – 1912) and KheraKhurd(1924
- 1947) had to be closed down due to extraneous reasons, our presence remained confined
to...
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