kanosjanki

Remember that we need more common sense that humility to recognise what we are. To become humble we must suffer patiently if we are regarded by other as poor, ignorant and defective just as we are.

st. Magdalena di Canossa
Catechesis

Magdalene opened the schools in which she started to educate girls and women who could not have partecipated to other tipes of education. She opened one school to prepare future teachers for the villages.

She engaged herself in taking care of the sick in hospitals.

She guided and organized spiritual retreats for women from nobile families to let them deepen their spiritual life end engaged them in the apostolic activities for the needy, as she and her companions, were doing.