Our Foundress

Blessed Maria Teresa Scrilli the foundress of the Institute of Our Lady of Carmel was born to Ireneo Scrilli and Sarafina Checucci at Montevarchi on May 15, 1825.Though She was not of this century, her visions were very high in spirit and wide in faith. It were as best as her days, still latest as todays.....

It is to give basic education to children, strengthen the religious faith and to improve their moral life. Her deep love for God often forced her to hold the crudifix, to gaze upon and kiss it and repeat her love to Him, as she believed that she was born to share the sufferings of the Lord. She always let God work through her by caring for the sick, by being a good teacher to little children, Sacrificing and Praying for the salvation of souls etc...In short, Saintly life of her shifted from earth to heaven on November 14th, 1889.