Chronology of Santa Maria de Mattias

1805: María Matilde De Mattias was born on the 4th of February in Vallecorsa, a mountain village in

in the province of Frosinone, in the octave of two children of Giovanni and Ottavia De Angelis. Su

priest, from a bourgeois family, also held the position of Gonfaloniero of the municipality of

Vallecorsa in 1820; Her mother, born in Ferentino, was an impulsive woman with a

strict education.

Of María Matilde's brothers, only the last survived: Michele and

Antonio.

1822: During a popular mission in Vallecorsa, I heard the sermons of Father Gaspar del

Buffalo, Roman priest and founder of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood.

The encounter with this saint was crucial for the life and spirituality of the future

founder.

1824: Conoció to Don Giovanni Merlini, Misionero de la Preciosísima Sangre, collaborator of

San Gaspar and his second successor as Superior General, since 1857, dies.

He decided to entrust himself to his spiritual direction: he would be his guide for 42 years, until his

death.

1834: Sale from Vallecorsa on March 1st and arrives at Acuto (Frosinone) on March 2nd. El 4

March, with the opening of the first school, founds the Congregation of Adoratrices

of the Precious Blood of Jesus.

1835: Welcome your first companion, Anna Farotti, and with her celebrate the first "congress"

of the nascent congregation, where its fines and name were officially established

of the Institute. Father Giovanni Merlini is also present. Farotti abandons

later the Institute.

1836: With his seven first companions he was temporarily transferred to the episcopal palace,

Summer residence for seminarians from Anagni, located in Acuto.

1837: She and her companions professed the simple vows of humility, obedience, poverty and

chastity. Public votes were introduced into the congregation in 1885.

1838: Presents the first Rules of Life to the bishop of Anagni, Vincenzo Annovazzi, for his

approval.

1843: In Acuto, he definitively moved with the community to the old hospital, which was

acquired and restored. This would become the mother house of the Congregation of the

ASC. A small church dedicated to the Inmaculada is attached only to the house.

1885: The native congregation received a decree of approval from Pius IX. The final approval

He arrived in 1878.

1857: I ordered to print the "Reglas and Constitución de la Congregación de las Adoratrices de la

Precious Blood of Our Señor Jesucristo". Presented to the authorities

ecclesiastical in 1853, the Rules were approved in 1897.

1866: He died in Rome on August 20, in Via Rasella, at the age of 61.

1936 On February 16, Pius XI solemnly proclaimed the heroic virtues of Maria De

Mattias.

1950: On the 1st of October, Pius XII proclaimed her blessed.

1960: Las Adoratrices opens the first house in Cabeza del Buey, (Badajoz) – Spain.

1970: Légaron las ASC a Guinea Bissau.

2003: On May 18, Juan Pablo II proclaimed her saint. His fiesta is celebrated on the 4th of February.