HANDMAIDS OF MERCIFUL LOVE
“Witnessing the merciful love towards the poorest…”
“Witnessing the merciful love towards the poorest…”
A Congregation of religious who bear witness to Merciful Love in giving for those most in need. Being as mothers for the most disadvantaged, marginalized and poor.
The EAM should be “a sign of goodness and grace, as a reflection of the crucified and risen Love”, especially for “all those who live far from the good Father”, for the poor, children, sinners, the sick, the elderly, for the whole world.
It consists of four “branches”. Different forms of belonging to the Congregation:
1. Religious EAM.
2. Religious EAM for temporary activities. (EAMPAT)
They were founded in Madrid, on 24th December 1930.
A Congregation of Sisters, who manifest the Merciful Love by putting themselves in the service of the most destitute. Being like mothers for the most discriminated, outcast and poor…
They were the first founded in Madrid, on Christmas Eve 1930. Since the beginning, the Handmaids lived intensely, with Mother Esperanza, the mission…
They were founded on 11 February 1957, in Fermo, on the same day the first Handmaids made their first religious profession…
