Margherita Maria Guaini

Margherita Maria Guaini, Foundress of the Missionaries of Jesus the Eternal Priest, was born on 12 November 1902, in Ceto, Val Camonica in the Italian Province of Brescia. Her parents, Battista Guaini and Elisabetta Filippini, gave her the name Alice Antonia, when she was baptized on the same day that she was born.

When she was ten years old (in 1912), her family moved to Gozzolina, in the Municipality of Castiglione delle Stiviere, where she received her first communion two years later, on 21 June 1914, in the Parish of Sts. Nazario and Celso. she and her community moved to Varallo Sesia in the Province of Vercelli, where they were welcomed and supported by Mons. Gilla Vincenzo Gremigni, Bishop of Novara.

After spending her life for God and humankind, and with the commitment to continue being the "mother" of priests and of those who suffer, she died in Varallo Sesia on 2 March 1994, at the age of 92 years. Her remains are enshrined in the Church of Our Lady of Graces in the same place where she died.

On 29 April 2011, Mons. Renato Corti, Bishop of Novara, opened the diocesan phase of the canonical procedure in view of examining the heroic virtue of Mother Margherita Maria Guaini, who is now a Servant of God.

Today, the Institute of the Missionaries of Jesus the Eternal Priest, which she established, is present in Italy, Latin America, Philippines, and India.