MISSIONARIES OF THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY (Naples). - Religious congregation founded in 1833 by the venerable Gaetano Errico, at Secondigliano di Napoli, for an intense apostolic ministry and for the education of youth. Its chief activity is the exercise of missions to the people, especially in the outlying districts and the countryside, without however excluding or considering as secondary the ministry of missions among unbelievers. The Holy See approved it on 7 Aug. 1846, confirming the supreme act with a brief of 15 Sept. of the same year.

MISSIONARIES OF THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY (Naples) - Mother House - Secondigliano.(courtesy of the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary)

In its first twenty years the Institute prospered vigorously and numerous colleges were opened in the dioceses of Naples, Avellino, Sora, Aquino and Pontecorvo, Bari, Gaeta, Campobasso, Rome, Conza and Cerignola. The suppression of the religious Orders decreed by the Italian government cut short all its activity, leaving only the house in Rome, in which Errico's work survived until the day when the rebirth could truly begin. This happened in 1894 with the reopening of the novitiate, after part of the Mother House of Secondigliano had been redeemed.

In 1912 the first missionaries entered Argentina, and there are now houses in Buenos Aires, Rosario, S. Fè and in the capital of Uruguay. In 1948 a large apostolic school was inaugurated at Secondigliano, and at the same time the novitiate was opened at Juan Ortiz for the vocations of Latin America. At present the Congregation numbers about a hundred members, in 8 houses.

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BIBL.: Cronistoria dell'Istituto ed Elenco biografico dei Congregati (manuscripts in the Mother House); M. Sodano, Brevi cenni sul ven. G. Errico, Naples 1886; P. Di Nocera, Lettere edificanti e Regole di spirito del ven. G. Errico, ibid. 1897; N. Angelini, Vita del ven. G. Errico, ibid. 1908; V. Pennino, Biografia e lettere del ven. G. Errico, ibid. 1908; F. Grampone, Ven. G. Errico, Turin 1931.

Luigi Grande

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Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Naples)

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