Franciscan Handmaid of the Immaculate

Franciscan Handmaid of the Immaculate –  Sister Catherine Marie Labouré, A.F.I.                                                                        Ancillae Francescane Immaculatae                                                                                                                           “Ave Maria!”        

Founder:  Reverend Stefano Manelli. F.I.

Place:  Bellingham, Massachusetts

Year:  1995 A.D.

Her Charism:  Walking with the angel of resurrection and professing the Franciscan Rule as her penitential and vowed way of life, this Sister is wholly dedicated to Our Lady.  She belongs to her unreservedly so that her life grows deeper in Our Lady from hour-to-hour, from day-by-day, from moment-to-moment and without limits.  She is sealed by the Marian Vow of Total Consecration to the Immaculate Virgin after St. Maximilian Kolbe.  Her apostolic zeal and supernatural charity drive her to carry and give Jesus to everyone and “to help, to urge, and to spur everyone into Paradise through the Immaculate One.”  This Sister’s Missio Immaculatae (Immaculate Mission) is to place Our Lady in every soul so sin can be expelled and Jesus introduced.  Therefore, whoever finds the Immaculate One, finds Jesus.