International Association of

International Association of

MISEVI

(Lay vincentian missionaries)

Congregation

for Institutes of Consecrated Life

and Societies of Apostolic Life

Prot. n. P. 53 - 2/99

DECREE

The work called "Lay Vincentian Missionaries" (MISEVI) is a public international Association of Faithful who desire to share in the charism and spirituality of St. Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission and of the Daughters of Charity, adapting them to the lifestyle of the members of this Association.

The principal aim of the Association is the basic moral or spiritual support and coordination of the adult lay missionaries. Obtaining funds to realize missionary projects is a secondary aim.

This Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, recognizing that the Association of "Lay Vincentian Missionaries" has full juridical personality and autonomy and that, at the same time, is linked to the Vincentian charism and spirituality and accepts in the said context the supreme authority of the Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission and of the Daughters of Charity, after having carefully examined the text of the International Statutes presented in the Spanish language, of which a copy is preserved in its archives, by the present Decree approves and confirms them.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary.

The Vatican, 7 April 1999.

Eduardo Cardinal Martínez Somalo

Prefect

+ Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti, C.P.

Secretary

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