History

BACKGROUND

In 1984, by a group of lay faithful, at the Parish of St. Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori in Foggia, the Magnificat Dominum Community was born. In 1985 the Magnificat Community of Foggia started a relationship of mutual knowledge with the Magnificat Community of Perugia. At that time in Italy there were already other communities named Magnificat, precisely in Salerno and Turin. There was no formal link between all the Magnificat Communities. In 1991 the Communities of Perugia, Turin, Salerno and Foggia, evaluated the possibility of merging into a single Community, with a single rule and a single government. This process ended in November 1995 with the approval of the Regola ad experimentum by S.And. Msgr. Ennio Antonelli, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve.

On December 8, 2003, following the revision of the Regola ad experimentum and after careful discernment, the area of Foggia, in order to remain faithful to its initial vocation, decided to specify itself from the Magnificat Community giving life to the Magnificat Dominum Community.