...guided the Institute soon after the Second Vatican Council, a span of time which was like a painful sunset waiting for a new dawn "amid the groaning of generations in transition". We feel that she is still alive today and in our midst. She repeats to those who are journeying towards this goal: "Take heart! Christ is alive yesterday, He is alive today, and so He will be tomorrow. He is always rejuvenating our eyes so that we may find, beyond the starry night, the sun rising on the horizon...Thanks for patiently waiting in hope. Keep up your faith! It is the perennial wealth of our Institute. Support the young Sisters in their life of charity and the Morning Star will find them vigilantly waiting for the year 2000".

Sr Emily Aloysia Bowring: 1833 ~ 1870

Emily Aloysia Bowring was born in London, a daughter of the governer of Hongkong, Sir John Bowring. In a simple but momentous ceremony in 1861, Emily became Sr Aloysia, the first Canossian to take her vows in the new Hongkong Canossian mission. Having given her life to the Lord in its fullness, Sr Aloysia Bowring was called home to the Lord at the tender age of thirty seven, having lived as a Canossian Daughter of Charity for ten years.

Sr Pierina D’Silva: 1900 ~ 1977

Meenakshi Ayer, Indian by nationality, Hindu by religion and a Brahmin by cast was baptised a Catholic and took the name of Mary Agnes at the age of eighteen. She became a Canossian sister at the age of twenty and was henceforth know as Sr Pierina. Her trials and transition from being a Hindu and Brahmin to being a Catholic and a religious was a metanoia that manifested the power of God.

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