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| The first Center for Higher Studies in Rome. | |
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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 founder considered it vitally important for the
Legionaries of Christ to be formed 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
Vicar of Christ 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 founder 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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