Italian Roman Catholic Missionary Family: The Consolata Missionaries

CONSOLATA MISSIONARIES
INTRODUCTION
The Consolata Missionaries is an Italian Roman Catholic missionary congregation for both men and women. As an international religious and missionary family the Consolata Missionaries consists of about 1,000 priests and brothers, 900 sisters and lay people dedicated to the divine purpose of mission accomplishment. Consolata Missionaries works with local churches and other religious institutions with the aim to help them mature in faith and overall spirituality. The international religious fraternity aims to make fellow followers self-sufficient in their ministries as well as in their personnel structures.
Consolata Missionaries helps the poor and other marginalized communities in society through its provisions

This was after the arrival of the first Italian missionaries; Tommaso Gays, 31 years and Filippo Perlo, 29 years. Together with two brothers; Luigi Falda, 19 years and Celeste Lusso, 18 years who had been sent to accomplish the evangelism missions from Italy. The congregation first got stationed in Kiambu in 1902 before moving to Limuru in 1903. Later in 1905 the Zanzibar vicariate was divided between the Holy Ghost and the Consolata missions leading to the congregation being given the authority to man the whole of the Mt. Kenya area. This led to the establishment of evangelism stations in Manglu and Thika in 1906. The society recorded its first baptisms in 1907 before spreading to Murang'a, with Tutho as its base. The Nyeri vicariate was formed in 1909, with FiIippo Perlo as its first vicar apostolic.
Between 1911 and 1913, the Consolata Mission established four stations in Meru before becoming a prefecture in 1926, under the leadership of Monsignor G. Balbo. In 1922, Father Maraviglia opened outstations at Baricho and Kianyaga. The Society attempted to enter Embu, but they were stopped by the government authorities until the 1930s when permission was