With Maestra Nazarena Morando, Maestra Thecla was “an open book,” to the point that she asked M. Nazarena to serve as her corrector. And it was precisely to M. Nazarena that Prima Maestra confided her desire to offer her life for the Daughters of St. Paul. She wrote: Dearest M. Nazarena, I want to tell […]
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Thecla, Woman of Faith
From the Testimony of Fr. Carlo DraGone1 I always admired and esteemed Maestra The- cla from the time I first met her, shortly after I entered the Society of St. Paul in 1925. I saw her as a prudent, capable and virtuous person and my esteem for her grew at our every en- counter. I had the chance […]
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Why the Title “Co-Foundress” of the FSPs?
Ever since the FSP Special Chapter (1969), the title “Co-Foundress” has been used to define Maestra Thecla (cf. Chapter Documents, the Constitutions, etc.) and it is the official title used for her in her cause for beatification, which opened in 1967. When Fr. Alberione was alive, Fr. Stephen Lamera, the Postulator General of Prima Maestra’s […]
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The following testimony is by Sr. Giuseppina Balestra, one of the oldest members of our Congregation. For many years she served as Maestra Thecla’s driver and in this capacity accompanied her to many communities in Italy and other parts of Europe. Maestra Thecla’s charity toward the sisters was very discreet. More than once it happened that I was a […]
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Maestra Thecla, Sister and Mother Maestra Thecla was a woman who communicated with others on a profound level. She treated every sister as a unique individual, establishing bonds of communion by relating to each person objectively and as an equal, recognizing the individual’s positive qualities and showing her that she trusted her. Maestra Thecla created […]
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