{"id":87433,"date":"2023-03-25T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T09:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cgfmanet.org\/infosphere\/beata-maddalena-morano-donna-oltre-ogni-frontiera\/"},"modified":"2023-03-25T22:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T21:30:03","slug":"mother-maddalena-morano-a-woman-beyond-all-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cgfmanet.org\/en\/ifma-en\/mother-maddalena-morano-a-woman-beyond-all-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Maddalena Morano, a woman beyond all borders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rome (Italy).<\/strong> March 26, 2023 marks the anniversary of the birth into heaven of Blessed Maddalena Morano<\/a><\/strong><\/span> (1847-1908), Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, whose biographical story is linked to Piedmont and Sicily, in particular to two towns: Montaldo Torinese (Turin) and Al\u00ec Terme (Messina).<\/p>\n

Orphaned of a father, second of four children, Maddalena is forced to leave school to help her mother in the weaving work. Thanks to the help of her priest uncle, she resumed her studies and at the age of 17 she obtained a teaching diploma. It is precisely in Montaldo Torinese that Maddalena begins to teach, demonstrating a singular talent as an educator and teacher, which in a short time makes her a point of reference for the whole town. After 14 years of teaching, thanks to the small amount she put aside, she buys a house for her mother and she decides to consecrate herself to God.<\/p>\n

She is about thirty years old and the doors of the convents she knocks on remain closed to her. Once she arrived in Valdocco, Don Bosco encouraged her to go to Mornese. It is Mother Mazzarello herself who welcomes her. She made her temporary profession in 1879, and her perpetual one in 1880. Sister Maddalena is director of the boarders of the Mother House in Nizza Monferrato. After the death of Mother Mazzarello and the subsequent General Chapter, she was sent as animator to Trecastagni (Catania). Her great educational passion for God and for the young finds a broad and challenging mission in Sicily where she will remain until her death on 26 March 1908, when she has now “completed the measure of holiness”, as she had asked the Lord the day of her first profession.<\/p>\n

In recent months some initiatives have taken place, which contribute to deepening the knowledge of this Blessed.<\/p>\n

On 25 November 2022, at the Festival of the Social Doctrine of the Church – held in Verona, 24-27 November, on the theme “Building Trust. The Passion of Encounter” – Sr. Monica Roncari, from the Maria Ausiliatrice Province (IPI), presented a video made especially for this event by the Communication Sector of the Piedmontese Province, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Montaldo Torinese. In the video, Montaldese Prof. Valeria Martano and Sr. Mariella Lo Turco, from the Sicilian Province Madre Maddalena Morano<\/em> (ISI), retrace the biographical story of the Blessed, highlighting her pedagogical, relational, and spiritual qualities.<\/p>\n