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| The Legion has grown a great deal in Italy since 1946, when the Legionaries arrived to Rome for the first time. |
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In 1950, the Legionaries of Christ opened their first
house in Rome. Following the advice of the then Prefect
of the Congregation for Religious, Cardinal Luigi Lavitrano, they founded
the Major School on Via Aurelia. The former school is
now the headquarters for the Legion’s General Directorate.
From
the foundation, the Legionaries of Christ were formed to be
close to the Vicar of Christ. The congregation wanted to stand
out for its fidelity and loyalty to the Holy Father,
and to offer the Pope priests who would be totally at
his service and at the service of the Church.
Upon the request of Pope Pius XII, passed on by
the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Clemente Micara, the Legion undertook the
task of building the church of Our Lady of Guadalupe
in Rome. The intention was to offer a Marian shrine
under that title as a pilgrimage place for the thousands
of Latin Americans who came to Rome every year. The
church was inaugurated in December of 1958.
In the
following years, in line with the directives of the Second
Vatican Council, the Legionaries founded the first lay groups of
the Regnum Christi apostolic movement. These lay members would
share in the spirituality of the congregation and would live
out their Christian commitment in the world.
In 1991,
the Legionaries started up the new Center for Higher Studies
on vía Aurelia Antica, with space for 300 students. Constant
vocational and apostolic growth brought the Legionaries to establish a
novitiate in the north of Italy in 1992. It was
the first in the province of Como, and afterwards in
Gozzano (Novara).
Seven years later, the Legionaries put
the building on vía Aurelia Antica at the service of
the bishops who wanted to send their seminarians to Rome,
especially the future formators of their diocesan seminaries by founding the
International Pontifical College Maria Mater Ecclesiae. And so, in 1999,
the Legionaries’ Center for Higher Studies was moved to another
new building on Via degli Aldobrandeschi, to the west of
the city. On the same property, the new Pontifical Regina
Apostolorum College opened its doors in 1993. From the year
2001 onward, the Regina Apostolorum was the first college with
an international bioethics faculty.
The Legion currently directs two
schools in Rome: the Irish Institute (La Giustiniana), since 1984
and the Highlands (Eur), since 1998. More recently, in the
year 2001, they took charge of the "Villaggio dei
Ragazzi" (Boys’ Town), an educational and special needs school located
in the province of Caserta, near Naples. In September of
2005 the European University of Rome was founded as a
private Catholic university recognized by the Italian state. Its initial
degree offerings include Historical Sciences, Psychology, and Legal Sciences.
The Legionaries have communities and work apostolically not only
in the provinces of Rome, Caserta, and Novara, but also
in the provinces of Asta, Padua, Bologna, and Palermo. There
are lay groups, both members and sympathizers, who work actively
in the cities of Turin, Florence, Ancona, Ascoli, Fondi, Nocera,
Bari, and Catania to help their pastors in the new
evangelization.
In addition, they work in other apostolates
on a national level, such as the courses for priests
and religious offered by the Sacerdos Institute and the Higher
Institute for Religious Sciences, the kids clubs linked to NET magazine, and the ART Editorial Edition with publications like:
Il Timone, Messa e Meditazione (Mass and Meditation), Sacerdos
Magazine, and numerous books.
For more information, contact us:
Legionari di Cristo (Legionaries of Christ)
Via Aldobrandeschi, 190
00163
Roma (Rome) – Italia (Italy)
italia@legionaries.org
Web
sites:
www.upra.org
www.unier.it
www.amicidinet.it
www.iltimone.org
www.cywn.net
www.villaggiodeiragazzi.it
www.cefid.it
www.altius.org
www.notredamecenter.org
www.vocazione.org
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