DID YOU KNOW…

  • From his youth, Teresa’s father would sign his name only as Giuseppe Valsé?The death of his friend Pantellini, with whom he had shared the harsh times of exile, made him keep his passport and add his name to his own. Upon reaching Egypt, he began to call himself Giuseppe Valsé-Pantellini(cf GIUDICI Maria Pia, Teresa Valsé-Pantellini. Il coraggio dell’umile, Leumann Torino, Elledici 2006, 15).
  • Sr. Teresa’s parents, , Giuseppe Valsé-Pantellini and Giuseppina Viglini, were married in Cairo? “Seeking his fortune,Giuseppe Valsé-Pantellini settled temporarily in Cairo, Egypt, where he built a large hotel on the Nile. It became internationally famous. The happy experience was repeated in Alessandria” (CASTANO Luigi, Suor Teresa Valsé – Pantellini. Figlia di Maria Ausiliatrice, Apostola di Trastevere, Leumann (Torino) Elledici 1996, 7)
  • Teresa’s older brother was named Italo, and her younger sister Giuseppina? Italo was born in Cairo on August 26, 1876, and in 1885 went to Fiesole to study at a school directed by the Scolopian Fathers. He later studied Law, and was a scholar of Literature and Music. He married and was a model father “leaving a legacy of a modest, laborious life, hidden in God, the principle and aim of his every desire” Giuseppina married the Marquis Francesco Bartolini Salimbeni, and became, “an excellent and exemplary mother of her family” (cf CASTANO Luigi, Suor Teresa Valsé – Pantellini… op. cit, 8).
  • The first letter written by Teresa Valsé at 6 years of age is conserved in the archives? It is a wish for her father on the occasion of his nameday, and is dated March 7, (cf GIUDICI Maria Pia, Teresa Valsé-Pantellini. Il coraggio dell’umile, 136)
  • Sr.Teresa Valsé was educated at home until she was 12 years of age? At 3 she already knew how to read almost correctly, to write and do addition.i (cf cf GIUDICI Maria Pia, Teresa Valsé-Pantellini. Il coraggio dell’umile amore, 17)
  • Later shewas registered at the “Conservatorio della SS.ma Annunziata” calledPoggio ImperialeatFlorence? It was a civil institute directed by lay people. (cf CASTANO Luigi, Suor Teresa Valsé – Pantellini. Figlia di Maria Ausiliatrice, Apostola di Trastevere, 15)
  • In1890 she lost her father and in 1899 her mother? At the death of her father she was 12 years old (and had just entered the Conservatorioa week earlier). She was 21 years of age at the death of her mother.
  • In 1897 she moved to Rome and studied at the Institute administered by the Ladies of the Sacred Heart at Trinità dei Monti? It was her mother who wanted this move to the Eternal City.
  • Themost important cities where Sr. Teresa Valsè lived were : Milan, Florence, Rome,and Turin? She was born in the first, grew up inthe second,and in the third she became an FMA and worked, and in the last she died.
  • Sr. Teresa Valsé made her first profession on August 3, 1903 at Nizza Monferrato in the sanctuary of “Our Lady of Grace”?
  • Sr.Teresa Valsé presented to the Superior General her missionary request on June 3, 1907,ready to leave for China if Our Lady would have granted her the grace of restored health ?
  • Sr. Teresa Valsé died at Turin on September 3, 1907, about a month before her 29th birthday?
  • Her mortal remains were transferred to the Chapel of the Institute of Our Lady of GraceatNizza Monferrato, 41 years after her death (in 1948)?
  • Sr. Teresa knew the foundress of the Little Sisters of Divine Providence, Mother Teresa Michel? cf
  • VIDES (volontariato Internazionale Donne, Educazione, Sviluppo) has its headquarters in the Milan Comunità Sr . Teresa Valsé Pantellini where it carries out the project : “I like being with you”” ?
  • Houses and schools dedicatedto Teresa Valsé Pantelliniexist in Italy (Villadosola, Rome) as well asin Brazil (Colégio Teresa Valsé - Uberlândia)?

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  • In the FMA Institute there are 16 communities dedicated to Venerable Teresa FMA ci sono 16 Valsé?

FMA Houses Dedicatedto Venerabile Sr. Teresa Valsé Pantellini

Foundation / House / Nation / Province
1. / 1959 / Quito / Ecuador / ECU
2. / 1959 / Uberlândia / Brazil / BBH
3. / 1961 / Villadossola / Italy / Piemontese IPI
4. / 1962 / Gela / Italy / Sicula ISI
5. / 1963 / Bogotá / Colombia / CBC
6. / 1964 / Groot-Bijgaarden / Belgium / BEG
7. / 1968 / Medellín / Colombia / CMM
8. / 1982 / Seoul / Korea / KOR
9. / 1984 / Alta Floresta / Brazil / BCB
10. / 1988 / Roma – comunità internazionale / Italy / RMA
11. / 1990 / San Sebastian Intxaurrondo / Spain / SMA
12. / 2003 / Milano / Italy / Lombarda ILO
13. / 2006 / Roma – noviziato internazionale / Italy / Romana IRO
14. / 2008 / Dahanu / India / INB
15. / 2008 / Mazabuka / Zambia / AFM
16. / 2010 / Bogotá / Colombia / CBC