On Thursday 1 October 2020, in our parish church of the Santi Angeli Custodi in Rome, Brother Floribert, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, made the solemn profession of the reli- gious vows. The Mass of Profession, presided over by the Superior General Father Teodoro Ortega Kalaw, began at 7 [...]
It was on April 1, 1962, the arrival of the first Adorno priests in Ramsey: the late Fr. Achille Rondinara, CRM, and his assistant, the late Fr. Hector Di Nardo, CRM. “The arrival marked a milestone in the history of the Adorno Fathers, and the house they came to take [...]
Nairob, Kenya - In the year 2016, it well pleased the Father General of the Clerics Regular Minor, Fr. Raphael Mandolesi and his Council to decide about a new theological experience for the CRM students in Nairobi, shifting from TANGAZA COLLEGE to DON BOSCO UTUME. After their simple profession of [...]
Goma, DRC - As we do always say that the patient man eats ripen fruits, so it is my great and big pleasure to borrow such a statement and implement it within the context and circumstances of life that I willingly and freely I have embraced. I would like to [...]
Born on December 29, 1882 at Sant'Elpidio a Mare, Marche, from Luigi and Luigia Corradini, he was the second of six children and entered our Order on October 24, 1897 in Anagni where he did his novitiate and took the Simple Vows on January 22, 1899. He went to Rome [...]
Today we celebrate the 432nd founding anniversary of the Clerics Regular Minor commonly known as Adorno Fathers. On July 1, 1588 Pope Sixtus approved the new Order established by Augustine Adorno, Fabrizio Caracciolo and Francis Caracciolo. The Order came into existence in the 16th century and was one of several [...]
LIPA CITY, PHILIPPINES - On the occasion of the feast of one of our founders St. Francis Caracciolo, Fr. Ted Kalaw, CRM Superior General of the Order sends a letter to all the Brothers highlighting the importance of communitarian vocation, that is, “to be saints for our own time.” Following [...]
On his way to Agnone in May 1608, SAINT FRANCIS CARACCIOLO visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto. He “went straight to the Holy House. As he entered, he burst into tears and sobbed with excessive joy and devotion due to his excessive joy and piety which enlarged his [...]
In Messina, Sicily in 1743, a terrible plague infected the population and caused great suffering for many. It was a plague that lasted from the beginning of March 1743 until about May of 1744. The actual contamination initiated from a cargo ship that entered the harbor. It is reported [...]
On October 31, 1942, as the world was on the threshold of World War II, Pope Pius XII solemnly consecrated the World to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. By means of this Marian consecration, Venerable Pius XII entrusted the world to the Virgin Mary, as Queen of Peace, through her [...]