OBLATION SISTERS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT(OSBS)

ST. MARIA CRISTINA BRANDO (May 01,1856-January 20,1906) FOUNDRESS   of the OBLATION SISTERS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT (OSBS)   ST. MARIA CRISTINA BRANDO (1856-1906)   BIOGRAPHY   St. Maria Cristina Brando  was born in Casoria, Naples, Italy on May 1, 1856 of wealthy parents, Giovanni Giuseppe Brando and Maria Concetta Marazzo. Her mother died few days after the birth of the servant of God. Possessing a gentle and docile nature, she received a fruitful and sound religious education within her family and early on, showed clear signs of an inclination toward prayer and celibacy. Attracted by the things of God, she fled from worldly vanities, and in addition to a love for solitude, she frequently celebrated the sacrament o Penance and was a daily received Holy Communion. She heeded the teaching of our Savior (cf. Mt 5, 48), and was accustomed to say repeatedly: "l want to be a saint." Approximately at the age of twelve, before an image of the Child Jesus, she profess...

                                                                    Congregation of the Oblation Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (Vittime Espiatrici di Gesu Sacramentato) FOUNDRESS : ST. MARIA CRISTINA BRANDO (May 01,1856-January 20,1906) INTRODUCTION We are the Oblation Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, we constitute a family inspired by God at a particular moment in history through Saint Maria Cristina Brando, to atone for the sins committed against the Eucharist and to implore the conversion of sinners. The   Institute bases its daily operations, choices and religious mission on the teachings and the history of the Foundress Saint  Maria Cristina Brando. In 1878, the Mother Found ress  began the Congregation of the Expiatory Victims of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament , a religi...