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The new General Superior of the Institute “Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará” (SSVM) from July 4th 2016, is Mother María Corredentora Rodríguez from Argentina.

She is the fourth General Superior of our Institute that was founded in Argentina in 1988 by Father Carlos Miguel Buela.  It is the feminine branch of the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word.

After finishing high school, she entered the convent.  She was the Provincial Superior in Brazil, and for the last eighteen years has been part of the General Council of our Institute.  The first six years she was the General Vicar and for the last twelve years she has been simultaneously one of the General Counselors and the ProvincialSuperior in Italy.

Now she has in front of her the next six years of the Institute “Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará”, which currently has more than 1,200 members spread throughout thirty-six countries.

The sisters take care of homes for orphaned or homeless children, schools, residencies for the elderly, and houses for the disabled and single mothers.  They also help in hospitals, pilgrimage sites and parishes.  The Institute also has a contemplative branch with sisters who dedicate their lives to prayer and silence, praying and interceding for the many needs of the world.

Previous General Superiors:

madre-anima-superiora-general-1998-2016Mother Maria de Anima Christ van Eijk:

Mother Maria de Anima Christi was born in Terneuzen, Holland.  She entered the Institute after studying Art History.  From July 13th 1998 to July 4th 2016, she was the third General Superior of the Institute.

Under her leadership, the Institute truly flourished, founding missions all over the world. As General Superior, she travelled about five months a year throughout the whole world in order to visit the different missions.

Every three weeks her column is published in the Catholic periodical “Katholeik Nieuwsblad” in which she lively tells the adventure stories of our missionary sisters.

Most of her columns were collected and printed in two books “Seeds of the Word” (2011) and “Traces of Love”  (2013).  Currently she is the new Provincial Superior of the province “Our Lady of Kazán” in Russia.

 

 

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Mother María de la Providencia Nuñez:

This Argentinian sister was our second General Superior from 1996 to 1998.  Under her guidance the General House was transferred from Mendonza (Argentina) to Italy.

Currently, Mother María de la Providencia is a missionary in Argentina.

 

 

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Mother María de Itatí Llorente:

She was the first General Superior of our Institute.  Afterwards, she formed part of the General Council of our Institute during Mother Anima Christi van Eijk´s second period of government.

She is currently a member of the community in the Provincial House in Argentina.

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