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WHO WE ARE
If a place has a story, it stays in memory forever
A place that offers young people the chance to experience silence and contact with nature, extended times of prayer and encounter with the Word, spaces of friendship and fraternity in the style of Salesian spirituality. For this purpose, a part of the villa has been set aside where young people gather to devote themselves to playful, recreational and educational activities.
Villa Crawford boasts a tradition of welcome and serenity.
The climate helps make it a privileged place for spiritual renewal, rest and relaxation, offering the chance to experience silence and contact with nature, extended times of prayer and encounter with the “Word” in the style of Salesian spirituality.
The Villa’s oratory is an educational place open to all young people, offering an experience rich in human and Christian values and expressed in a range of educational proposals suited to different age groups.
The training paths are many, starting from the interests and the cultural proposal of the leisure-time Associations (Salesian Youth Sports Club, Salesian Youth Film Clubs, Salesian Youth Tourism).
Francis Marion Crawford
Arriving in Sorrento on his honeymoon at the Cocumella Hotel, in love with the area, he decided to live there forever.
He chose to live in a villa overlooking the sea on the edge of the so-called Gulf of Pecoriello.
With his wife, Elizabeth Berdan, he had four children: Eleonora, Harold, Clara and Bertram.
The boys soon left Italy to move to England. Bertram, the youngest, married an Englishwoman with whom he led a brilliant life in the most exclusive circles and on the tennis courts.
In the villa in S. Agnello, Crawford died on Good Friday, 9 April 1909, at only 55.
After his death the villa passed to his eldest daughter Eleonora, who remained in the family home in Sant’Agnello. She married the nobleman Pietro Rocca di Roccapadula, by whom she had two children: Leone (who first became a lawyer and then a Jesuit) and Onorio (a fine musician and composer, after his father’s death he became a priest and spiritual guide to very many young people).
After her mother’s death, Eleonora would remain the driving force of Villa Crawford, continuing, in her father’s tradition, charitable work in support of local people in need, always keeping very close ties with many American friends.
Clara, the favourite daughter, became a nun and entered the community of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart, carrying out her work between Europe and Japan. Harold also married an Englishwoman and died very young during the Great War.
He left a son, Howard Francis, a well-known film actor, whose only son Charles Francis now lives in the south of England.
FMA
Noi Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice ci dedichiamo alla formazione umana e cristiana dei giovani, secondo l’espressione di don Bosco: “Formare buoni cristiani e onesti cittadini” e la realizziamo con diversi tipi di interventi: scuole, centri di formazione professionale, oratori-centri giovanili, pensionati universitari, casa famiglia, centri di Spiritualità, associazioni culturali, sportive, di volontariato e di animazione missionaria, progetti di rete sul territorio per intervenire su situazioni di povertà o disagio giovanile, collaboriamo con la pastorale parrocchiale negli oratori e nella catechesi.
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