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INTRODUCTION AND SITE GUIDE
internet site for the Dominican Sisters of the
Holy Spirit
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This site illustrates a viewof the past and
presentof this small Dominican congregation

• the Founders

• the sisters and their activities
  throughout time

• the special sites and their changes
  throughout the years

• the daily lives of the sisters today

their prayers and assistance to the elderly
women
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Alberto Del Corona
was born in Livorno in 1837, He became a
Dominican monk , at the Florentine Convent of San
Marco,
taking the name of Pius
from 1875 until 1906, he served as the Bishop of
San Miniato (Pisa),
and then retired to the San Dominic Convent in
Fiesole.
Monsignor Pio Alberto was a very zealous pastor
and often requested preacher He wrote many
bookson theology, spirituality, and devotion.
Most of his books on spirituality and devotion
have been printed and widely distributed among
Christian People.
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CongregaTION OF THE DOMINICAN SISTERS OF HOLY
SPIRIT
Pio Alberto Del Corona, along withMother Pia
Elena Bonaguidi, founded, in 1872,
the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the
Holy Spirit.
A home for the congregation was build as a
monastery on via Bolognese , 111 in Florence.
Here the co-founders passed away within a year
of each other Mons. Pio Alberto in 1912 and
Mother Elena in 1913.
Grafting himself to the branchesof the tree of
Dominican spirituality, Del Corona wanted his
congregation to cultivate a special devotion
forthe Holy Spirit.
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Mother Pia Elena Bonaguidi
Elena Bruzzi was born in Siena in 1835, she got
married and had a son. Early she was left widow
and in Florence she met a young Dominican Father,
Pio Alberto Del Corona, and became her spiritual
daughter.
The Father, who was thinking about founding a
female Congregation, found in the young widow the
necessary skills to drive the Congregation. In
1872, after having formed a little group of nuns,
he obtained Pope Pius IXs approval and blessing.
The Mother Pia Elena - this was her religious
name - carried on for all of her life the Mother
Superior office, showing to be a mother in the
full meaning of the term. She beared a serious
illness with heroism and serenity in the last
three years of her life.
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SISTERS DURING THE COURSE OF TIME
SISTERS DURING THE COURSE OF TIME
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The Monastery is on the Bolognese Road, number
111, in the hilly region surrounding Florence
andis formed by a complex of buildings that
develop from the road towards the slope at the
back.
The architect Antonio Romei was inspired by the
Renaissance style of the Dominican Basilica of
Santa Maria Novella, in Florence the current
Church is the result of a comprehensive
restoration which took place in 1997. The slope
of the ground allowed for the buildingof a Crypt
under the Church
Initially the Crypt had no decorations after
fifty years works started to create the tomb
which would receive the body of the Founder. The
last restructuration works (1999) have been
carried out to provide a more appropriate
location for Mgr. Pios corpse.
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THE MONASTERY
YESTERDAYANDTODAY
THE CHURCH
THE CRYPT
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the prayer
and the solemn liturgies
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In this large area of the monasterya retirement
home for elderly women was structuredand
organized.
Aerial viewof the large monastery complex
An ample gardenin the rearandextended
cultivated fields.
The peaceful garden is available for both the
sisters and the resident ladies.
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This is how a prayer dedicatedto the Holy Spirit
startsHoly Spirit, who arethe Third Personof
the eternal Holy Trinity,we worship You.You
proceed by will from the Father and the Son,You
are the substantial Bondof their blessed
Unionand You accomplishtheir mysterious
Beingin a Fire of Love
In order to show the special devotion that Mgr.
Pio nourished for theHoly Spirit, in the web
site you will find prayers and meditations on the
Holy Spirit composed by Mgr. Pio.
The soul is thus instructed to receive the Holy
SpiritIf we want the Holy Spiritto speak
inside us, let usswear to be quiet always. Be
quiet in pain and strugglein the lack of
feeling and desolation of the soul,in the
pitiful argumentsof ones pridein the peaceful
casualnessof those who feel vile andare happy
to be suchWe will live as deadwith this
silenceand we will live only in God.
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