FMA Shillong || Daughter of Mary Help of Christian

Our Father and Founder

At the age of nine little John Bosco was given a mission in a vision.

Mother And Co-Foundress

Mary Mazzarello was born on May 9, 1837 in a little white cottage in Mornese, Italy.

The Pioneers

Sr. Maria Bricarello was the first missionary Daughter of Mary Help of Christians from the N.E. to return to the Father’s house

16

Dec

2020
Christmas Message of Sr. Elizabeth George

Auxilium Provincial House Nongthymmai
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11

Dec

2020
Inauguration of the three-year preparation for the Centenary

The Salesian Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Shillong Province launched its three-year preparation for the centenary of the arrival of the Pioneers to Northeast India on 10 December 2020 at FM
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29

Nov

2020
42nd Annual Congress of the Association of Salesian Cooperators

The Annual Congress of the Salesian Cooperators of Shillong Province, which used to be a biggest gathering of the association, took into a multi-venue event this year against the backdrop of the pande
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25

Nov

2020
11th Annual Meet of FMA Nurses in the Province

The FMA Nurses of the Shillong Province gathered for their annual meet at FMA Outreach, Lumshyiap – Shillong on 24 November 2020. The theme that guided the gathering was ““NURSES: A VOICE TO LEA
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20

Jun

2020
Happy Feast!

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All News

Strenna

Strenna 2021

Strenna 2021 Moved by hope: “See, I am making all things new” (Rev 21:5) Listen to it here! Introduction In every part of the world, in whatever country or religion, the ‘image of the year’ that will remain impressed on everyone’s mind will be the one of an elderly man, all dressed in white, all alone in the wide expanse of St Peter’s Square in Rome on a rainy afternoon towards sunset on 27 March 2020. The man was Pope Francis who has never been alone like this while leading prayer, but at the same time never accompa

Superior General

Mother Yvonne Reungoat (2008)Mother Yvonne Reungoat has been a member of the General Chapter for 12 years (1996-2008) and since 2002 she has given her service as Vicar General and also as the person directly responsible for the four large international communities in Rome. During this time she was the closest collaborator to the Superior General, Mother Antonia Colombo and she shared with her the government of the Institute and the processes inherent to religious life and to education undertake

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Provincials

Sr. Catherine Mania

1953-1959 and 1970-1974

Sr. Cesira Gallina

1960 - 1964

Sr. Theresa Merlo

1965-1969

Sr.Virginia Marchetti

1975-1981

Sr. Marie Vazhapilly

1981 - 1988

Sr. Philomena Prabalanathan

1988 - 1994

Sr. Ivy D'Souza

1994 - 2000

Sr. Phyllis Bamon

2000 - 2006

Sr. Rosa Pyngrope

2006 - 2012

Sr. Isabella Suja

2012 - 2018

Sr. Elizabeth George

2018 - till date

Birthday Celebrants

Sr.Sten Rihun Paulina

22 June

Our History

St. John Bosco founded our Institute on August 5, 1872

Through a gift of the Holy Spirit and the direct intervention of Mary, St. John Bosco founded our Institute on August 5, 1872 as a response of salvation to the profound hopes of young girls.

He endowed it with a spiritual heritage that had its inspiration in the charity of Christ the Good Shepherd, and the maternal solicitude of Mary gave witness to a “LOVE THAT ENCOUNTERS CHRIST IN THE YOUNG”and imparted to it a strong missionary impulse.

1877 saw the first expansion of the Sisters work outside Europe and India welcomed the first Sisters in 1922.

14,116 Daughters of Mary Help of Christians or as more popularly known, Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco’s continue to be the perpetual and living monument of Don Bosco’s gratitude to the Mother of God, the Help of Christians, to whom we own all that we have and are. She is the Mother, Teacher and Guide, always and forever the same..