Founders and Patrons

St. John Bosco and St. Mary Mazzarello “founded our Institute as a response of salvation to the profound hopes” and dreams of poor young people. (FMA Constitutions #1) They chose our namesake as Mary Help of Christians, and St. Francis de Sales and St. Theresa of Avila as our patrons. In this section, we would like to share a bit about each of these people – about our Founders and Patrons.

 

Overall, our Saints and Patrons represent some of the greatest virtues our faith has to offer us.

 

• Mary Help of Christians has been the great protector of the Church
• St. John Bosco demonstrated extreme charity for the young and the poor.
• St. Mary Mazzarello was a woman of deep humility.
• St. Teresa of Avila was a woman of deep faith.
• St. Francis de Sales showed us how to live gentleness.