Safeguarding the family “patrimony”

When Chiara left us, all of us who had known her felt her very even closer: in Rome and in Rocca di Papa, as in Brazil, the Philippines, Africa and Australia.

And we felt compelled to take in hand the "baton" of the relay she had launched for universal fraternity among all people, to live with greater commitment in her footsteps.

The patrimony that she left us in the arch of 88 years is invaluable. It is now our task to collect , order and catalogue it, in order to share it with future generations, scholars and everyone.

This is why the idea of a Center in her name was born.  In July 2008, the General Assembly of the Focolare Movement approved the project and entrusted it to Eli Folonari.

Today the Center has its quarters (see photo) where the work of conserving and gradually making public the ‘family patrimony’ that Chiara left us had already begun.

This web site hopes to be the first small seed of this project.

The goals of the Chiara Lubich Center