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Maria Domenica Mazzarello, FMA (9 May 1837 – 14 May 1881) was an Italian Catholic nun who co-founded the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco. Mazzarelli, the place where Maria Mazzarello was born Valponasca, the place where Maria Mazzarello spent her childhood
St. Mary Domenica Mazzarello, together with St. John Bosco, co-founded the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. EARLY LIFE. Mary Domenica was born into a peasant farming family May 9, 1837 in Mornese (Italy). Gifted with uncommon good health and physical strength, she worked in the fields and vineyards with her father Joseph.
Mary Mazzarello, her face radiant with joy, hardly showing her thirty-five years except for a few stray wisps of graying hair that showed from under her bonnet, went first to the Bishop's chair. He handed her the new habit, which she herself had devised and first sewn together: upon her head he placed the veil of Sisterhood.
Life of St. Mary Mazzarello. Mary was born in Mornese, a small, hidden town in Northern Italy. Her family was poor and simple, but rich in faith-life and work ethic. Young Mary was known for her cheerful spirit and willingness to help others, but she had a feisty temperament.
Canonized: June 24,1951. Early life. Mary Domenica was born on May 9, 1837, in Mornese (Alessandria), Italy. At home she was helped to develop a solid piety, untiring work and that outstanding common sense and depth of judgment that she would show in later life as Congregational Leader.
saint mary domenica mazzarello (2) With trust and gratitude let us make our prayer to God our Father who reveals the riches of the Gospel to hearts that are simple and humble.
The life story of Mary Domenica Mazzarello is relatively brief (44 years) and can be spelt out in four stages marked by particular growth in her Christian and consecrated life. The first stage covers thirteen years from her birth at Mornese in the Alto Monferrato on 9 May 1837 until her First Communion (1850).
