Piccola Opera "Cuore Immacolato di Maria"

Going back to the '50s, when exactly on Nov. 2, 1957, the cleric of St. Roch, Parish of the Foce area, Don Pietro Lunardi, a priest from the Lucca countryside, obtained from the then Bishop Msgr. Agostino Rousset, authorized to collect and take care of orphans of the disadvantaged families. Towards the end of the '80s (1980-1990), the need for assistance that was felt, in conjunction with the decline in birth rate, diminished considerably the number of potential students; in the meantime, the apostolate had been donated to the "Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts", which was transformed into a nursing home for self-sufficient elderly women. Over the years, the Sisters are working to improve the building so as to make the services more and more efficient and adapted to the comfortable stay of the guests. Today, the mission house is called the "Protected Residence", for the self-sufficient and not self-sufficient elderly, and is authorized for 21 beds.