On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Institutes of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa and the Missionaries of Africa, in Rome, there was a conference on the life of Mother Marie Salomé, our first Superior General and our mother.
Sister Gisela Schreyer spoke about Mother Marie Salomé’s vocation, her first ten years in the Congregation, her election as Superior General and the qualities that enabled her to face the challenges of 43 years at the head of the Congregation.
Marie Salomé was a woman who was demanding of herself and of others, who believed in the place of the charism in the universal Church and who kept alive the missionary vision for Africa that made the charism of the Congregation flourish. We discover her as a woman apostle to women, faithful to the Founder and his spirit in the Congregation, a woman of faith, in the office of Superior General, the cross of her life.
