Vocationists
The Vokationisten ( Italian : Società delle divine vocazioni ; Latin : Societas divinarum Vocationum ; also Vokationistenpatres and Vokationistenschwestern ; religious symbol SDV) is an institute of consecrated life .
The Catholic clergyman Giustino Russolillo founded the community of Vocationist Fathers with clergymen and brothers in Pianura , a district of Naples , on October 18, 1920 . On October 2, 1921, the women's community of the Vocationist Sisters was founded . On January 18, 1966, the Decretum laudis , the official recognition of the communities as institutes of consecrated life, followed .
The activity of the community is the mission to give orientation to religious vocations, especially with the poor. They operate in Italy, Brazil, USA, Argentina, Nigeria, Philippines, India, Madagascar, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Great Britain and Chile.
Currently (2014) the community consists of 248 clergy and 460 lay brothers. The head office is in Via Cortina d'Ampezzo 140 in Rome .
Web links
- Vocationist website
- Website of the Blessed Fr. Justin Vocationary
- Entry to Society of Divine Vocations (Vocationists) on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved April 29, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caputo and Marisa Patarino: A Life for Vocations , San Mauro: Stige 2004, ISBN 2-7468-0983-4