CHIARA LUBICH

At the beginning of the 40’s, Chiara Lubich, then in her early twenties was working as an elementary school teacher in her native city of Trent. Her thirst for truth led her to register herself in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Venice. Then in the midst of the hate and violence of the Second World War II and the collapse of everything, she discovers God as the only Ideal that remains. God, who she discovered was Love, was to illuminate and transform her existence and that of many others, showing them the meaning of their lives: to work together for the realisation of the words of Jesus’ testament “That all may be one”.

With time it became clear that God’s original project was expressed in those words: to bring together the human family in unity.

In little more than 50 years, the experience of living the gospel on a daily basis has brought about a current of life that has spread all over the world among people of every age, origin and calling. This has given rise to the Movimento dei Focolari.