The Servite Mission Appeal for Zululand will be visiting us the weekend of September 27th and 28th.

          The Order Friar Servants of Mary (Servites) was started outside Florence Italy in 1233. There were Seven Holy Founders, canonized in 1888. The most well-known Servite Saint is St. Peregrine Laziosi, O.S.M., patron of those with cancer and life-threatening illness. Servites arrived in the Archdiocese of Detroit in 1927 and staffed St. John Berchmans and St. Juliana Falconieri parishes on the eastside until 1985.

 We began our work in the Vicariate of Ingwavuma, Zululand, Natal, South Africa in 1948. Our Servite Mission Appeals support the daily ministry to the Zulu Catholics in the Vicariate, the evangelization of the non-Catholic, and the formation of Servite seminarians. Fr. Paul Gins, O.S.M. from Chicago, will be the homilist at St. Louise for our mission.