St. Luigi Scrosoppi and the Sisters of Providence

St. Luigi Scrosoppi

St. Luigi Scrosoppi was born in Udine, Italy, on 4th August 1804. His educational work began in the 1820s amid 19th-century poverty in Udine, Italy, where famine, wars, disease, and Napoleonic suppressions left many girls orphaned and uneducated. He surrendered all his worldly possessions and pleasures and became a Catholic priest to serve God and his fellow brethren. In 1837, he founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence. His primary concern was the Education of Children and Youth. St. Luigi loved children and always received them as “Gift” of Providence. This laid his lifelong pedagogy: viewing children as “gifts” needing formation for self-reliance.

His testament, “Charity, Charity, Save Souls, Save them with Charity”, has become a source of inspiration for thousands of people today. St. Luigi, after his race on earth, left for his heavenly abode in 1884, leaving his legacy to the Congregation of Sisters of Providence, who continue his work in different parts of the world.

Sisters of Providence

Today, the Sisters of Providence, keeping alive the spirit of their founder St. Luigi Scrosoppi, continue to form the little minds by being mothers, teachers and shepherdesses to the children while placing their unlimited trust in the Divine Providence. They carry on his mission as educators and guides, forming children’s hearts and minds with love, compassion, and unwavering trust in God’s providence.