Saint Maria Domenica Mazzarello was the Italian founder of the Salesian Sisters.
She was born in Mornese, in what is now the province of Alessandria, northern Italy, to a peasant family who worked in a vineyard. She was the eldest of ten children of Joseph and Maddalena Calcagno Mazzarelli. When she was fifteen she joined the Association of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, run by her parish priest, Father Domenico Pestarino it was a precursor to the founding of the Salesian Sisters.
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