Foundation in 1938

 As far back as 1908, Fr. Alberione, during his brief experience as chaplain in a parish of Piedmont (Italy), understood the importance of a congregation exclusively prepared and dedicated to the animation of the local community, in close collaboration with the parish priest.

The insight concretized only after 30 years, on the 7^th October, the Feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary. 

Early years of foundation in Australia

Three Italian Sisters came to Melbourne, Australia in 1955 (14^th November) at the invitation of Fr Percy Jones, Parish Priest of Sacred Heart Parish in Carlton. With the influx of post war Italian migrants  he believed that a community of Pastorelle Sisters  involved in home visitation, running a pre-school, assisting with the animation of the liturgy  and ministering  to the recently arrived Italian young women,  was a ministry that responded to the new emerging needs.

As an international congregation, our Australian community has always had a multicultural component.  Two young women from the Philippines joined the community to have their postulancy in 1962 and later on went to Italy to continue their Novitiate.

A few years later a number of local young women, some of migrant background joined the community.