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Visit the Superior General of the Daughters of Mary Help

Dr. Hector Lescano

, Minister of Tourism and Sports

Heriberto Bodeant, Bishop of Melo,
Secretary General of the Uruguayan Episcopal Conference

Mother Yvonne Reungoat FMA, Provincial Sister. Inés Wijnants FMA,
María Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez

Sr. Provincial

. FMA Wijnants Inés

Salesian Provincial

P. Daniel Sturla SDB

Massimo Andrea Leggeri, Italian Ambassador to Uruguay

Mother Yvonne Reungoat FMA, Superior General the FMA

"Courage, the light still shines." The motto around a composition featuring the image of Mary Help of a starry sky, which is illuminated by light from a lighthouse. There is a any light: the lighthouse island of Flores, at the entrance of Montevideo.
ran the last month of 1877. The first FMA trod ground for the first time in Uruguay ... on the island of Flores. The ship that brought from Italy had touched down in Rio de Janeiro. Several passengers had fallen. The city was ravaged by yellow fever. On arrival at Montevideo, prevents passengers disembark and are confined for a few days of quarantine on the island of Flores.
So the sisters come to Uruguay. Two of them have only 17. The largest, superior of the small community, 22. Young members of a young congregation, founded just five years earlier, which launches mission to boldly cross the Atlantic.
community very soon receive the first Salesian of America, Sister. Laura Rodriguez, Uruguayan, vocation encouraged by the Salesian Fathers who had arrived the year before.
These were heroic times evoked by the Salesian Provincial, P. Daniel Sturla SDB last Wednesday, before a packed room Zitarrosa in Montevideo.
The purpose of the meeting and the evocation: receive the Superior General of the Daughters of Mary Help of Mother Yvonne Reungoat. Mother Yvonne, who has integrated the General Council of the Congregation, is the first non-Italian Superior General and was elected in 2008.
decided to come to Uruguay here to celebrate the Feast of Gratitude, a proper celebration of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians has been made in several countries. The coming of Mother Yvonne, as she put it at the time, means recognizing the special role that Uruguay has had for the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, as first mission and location of origin and vocation of the first Salesian America.
Throughout the evening was followed the speeches by various guests.
Tourism Minister Héctor Lescano, vowed to do everything possible so that could be facilitated by the installation of a statue of Mary Help of Christians on the island of Flores, religious yearning for mark the place of arrival.
Representing the Uruguayan Episcopal Conference, the Secretary General, Archbishop Bodeant, sent a greeting and gratitude, appreciating the presence of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Uruguay.
Italian Ambassador was very warm words of welcome.
Sister Uruguay provincial reviewed some important aspects of the Salesian time in Uruguay.
Finally, and between different artistic numbers, Mother Yvonne addressed the audience an enthusiastic and cheerful word, calling for a strengthening of the charisma and the educational commitment of the congregation, especially young people less fortunate in society.