Fundación –
2 Noviembre 1914
The beginnings of our Congregation date back to the time of the Mexican Revolution. On November 2, 1914 in Saltillo, Coahuila, three young catechists, suffering the reality of a divided nation and a persecuted Church, consecrated themselves to Our Lady of Guadalupe to live in community in the service of the most needy. In response to the Divine Spirit, our foundresses - Manuela Saucedo Sandoval, Celia Acuña Rodríguez, Emilia Casillas Curiel - formed a community of simple vows.
Canonical Erection Date –
September 15, 1930
Our sisters, under the coordination of Celia Acuña, on April 23, 1922 petitioned the Bishop of Saltillo to receive ecclesial approval as Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit in order to dedicate themselves to the catechetical teaching of children and female laborers and, secondarily, to the civic instruction of girls in Catholic primary schools. Having been denied their request, they closed the Colegio Del Espíritu Santo (School of the Holy Spirit), the parochial school they administered, and left for Mexico City with the hope of being able to continue with their community and mission. In their quest, on September 16, 1923, they met Father Félix of Jesus Rougier, a Marist priest of French origin, who had come to Mexico to help found the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit. He welcomed their inspired Work, transmitted his Pneumatological heart to them, and consolidated the group through his profound experience of God and his missionary zeal. As spiritual father and canonical founder, it is he who impelled our religious family to its canonical establishment with the name of Guadalupan Catechists of the Holy Spirit, on September 15, 1930 in the Diocese of Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.
Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit
Después del Segundo Concilio Vaticano cambiamos nuestro nombre a Missionary Guadalupanas of the Holy Spirit, expresando la síntesis de nuestras hermanas fundadoras con nuestro padre fundador; dicho nombre expresa nuestro carisma misionero que consiste en proclamar e inculturar el Evangelio en todas partes, al impulso del Espíritu de Dios, y en unión con María, mujer predestinada por Dios para contribuir con su Hijo a la salvación de la humanidad entera.
A su vez, el Sumo Pontífice Pablo VI aprobó la existencia de nuestro Instituto con la promulgación de sus Constituciones el 11 de febrero de 1973. Nuestra Congregación es, un instituto religioso misionero de Derecho Pontificio.
Desde el XIII Capítulo General (2008) nuestra familia Carismática también está formada por MGSpS Asociados/as, personas laicas y diáconos, que se comprometen a vivir nuestra Espiritualidad en los contextos que los rodean.