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One More Gift: Total Consecration to the Immaculata According to the Spirituality of Saint Maximilian Kolbe
English (translation)
Original Italian
Original Italian
127 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 1991
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About the author
Luigi M. Faccenda
3 booksFr. Luigi Faccenda was born in San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Bologna, a quaint village on the Italian Apennine Mountains. When he was 12 years old he entered the Seminary of the Conventual Franciscan Order in Faenza. Periods of precarious health conditions forced him to leave the seminary, and return home.
He made his temporary profession of vows in Assisi on August12, 1938, and his perpetual profession in Faenza in 1941. He was ordained a priest on May 18, 1944 in Fognano.
His superiors assigned him to spread the ideal and spirituality of St. Maximilian Kolbe by working for the Militia of the Immaculata. Fr. Faccenda’s entire pastoral program was devoted to spreading Fr. Kolbe’s ideal-- consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, culminating in the total giving of one’s life.
Following Fr. Kolbe’s example, Fr. Faccenda began in 1946 the Milizia Mariana, a monthly publication of Marian spirituality and formation with a missionary orientation, addressed in a special way to families and youth. Today it appears not only in Italian but also in French, Portuguese and Spanish.
In the 1950s, a group of young women asked to consecrate their lives to God in the spirit of St. Maximilian. In 1954, together with those women from the MI Movement, Fr. Faccenda began the Institute, “Fr. Kolbe Missionaries of the Immaculata.”
The Institute soon received the blessing and approval of the Cardinals Giacomo Lercaro, Antonio Poma, and Giacomo Biffi of the Archdiocese of Bologna, Italy. In 1946, he began also a flourishing editorial activity with the publication of “Milizia Mariana”, a monthly publication of Marian spirituality and formation with a missionary orientation. A few years later Fr. Luigi Faccenda established a publishing house – Edizioni dell’Immacolata (Immaculata Press).
In 1988, it was approved to invite laity and clergy to be associated to the Institute as Fr. Kolbe Volunteers of the Immaculata. In 1992, the Institute received the definitive approval of the Holy Father John Paul II as a Secular Institute of pontifical right.
With the approval of the Congregation for Catholic Education, on May 17, 1995, the Pontifical Theological Faculty “St. Bonaventure” in Rome, conferred the Honoris Causa Doctorate degree in Sacred Theology on Fr. Luigi Faccenda for his contribution to a deeper understanding and development of the Marian doctrine and thought of St. Maximilian Kolbe.
On February 11, 1997, welcoming the invitation of his confrere, Fr. Sebastiano Quaglio, OFM Conv, Fr. Luigi Faccenda founded the male Institute of the “Fr. Kolbe Missionaries of the Immaculata” in Brazil.
During the summer of 2005, his health worsened and he died on Sunday morning, October 9, 2005.
He made his temporary profession of vows in Assisi on August12, 1938, and his perpetual profession in Faenza in 1941. He was ordained a priest on May 18, 1944 in Fognano.
His superiors assigned him to spread the ideal and spirituality of St. Maximilian Kolbe by working for the Militia of the Immaculata. Fr. Faccenda’s entire pastoral program was devoted to spreading Fr. Kolbe’s ideal-- consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, culminating in the total giving of one’s life.
Following Fr. Kolbe’s example, Fr. Faccenda began in 1946 the Milizia Mariana, a monthly publication of Marian spirituality and formation with a missionary orientation, addressed in a special way to families and youth. Today it appears not only in Italian but also in French, Portuguese and Spanish.
In the 1950s, a group of young women asked to consecrate their lives to God in the spirit of St. Maximilian. In 1954, together with those women from the MI Movement, Fr. Faccenda began the Institute, “Fr. Kolbe Missionaries of the Immaculata.”
The Institute soon received the blessing and approval of the Cardinals Giacomo Lercaro, Antonio Poma, and Giacomo Biffi of the Archdiocese of Bologna, Italy. In 1946, he began also a flourishing editorial activity with the publication of “Milizia Mariana”, a monthly publication of Marian spirituality and formation with a missionary orientation. A few years later Fr. Luigi Faccenda established a publishing house – Edizioni dell’Immacolata (Immaculata Press).
In 1988, it was approved to invite laity and clergy to be associated to the Institute as Fr. Kolbe Volunteers of the Immaculata. In 1992, the Institute received the definitive approval of the Holy Father John Paul II as a Secular Institute of pontifical right.
With the approval of the Congregation for Catholic Education, on May 17, 1995, the Pontifical Theological Faculty “St. Bonaventure” in Rome, conferred the Honoris Causa Doctorate degree in Sacred Theology on Fr. Luigi Faccenda for his contribution to a deeper understanding and development of the Marian doctrine and thought of St. Maximilian Kolbe.
On February 11, 1997, welcoming the invitation of his confrere, Fr. Sebastiano Quaglio, OFM Conv, Fr. Luigi Faccenda founded the male Institute of the “Fr. Kolbe Missionaries of the Immaculata” in Brazil.
During the summer of 2005, his health worsened and he died on Sunday morning, October 9, 2005.
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March 17, 2020
Total consecration to the Immaculata through the spirituality of Maximilian Kolbe. The more I read about Kolbe the more I want to follow the daily consecration of the Militia Immaculatae!
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