Gualandi Mission for the Deaf

MISSION CHRONOLOGY

June 9, 1826
Birth of Fr. Giuseppe Gualandi in Bologna

December 23, 1848
Sacerdotal Ordination of Fr. Giuseppe Gualandi

July 8, 1849
Beginning of Fr. Giuseppe Gualandi’s vocation to serve the deaf

July 18, 1857
Pope Pius IX named St. Francis de Sales as Patron Saint of the Deaf

August 15, 1872
Approval of the Mission as “Pious Congregation of the Patriarch St. Joseph and St. Francis de Sales for the Instruction of the Deafmute”

May 1, 1903
Approval of the Mission as “Little Mission for the Abandoned Deafmute”

July 14, 1907
Death of Fr. Giuseppe Gualandi in Bologna

May 26, 1984
Foundation of the Mission in Londrina, Brazil

October 28, 1988
Foundation of the Mission in Cebu City, Philippines