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PART FIVE
MAN OF THE MIGRANTS
AND
FOR THE MIGRANTS
Bishop Scalabrini faces the dramatic problem of mass emigration that had exploded in Italy at the beginning of his episcopate with the heart of the shepherd who sees his flock being dispersed and feels the need to fulfill the mission of the Church, sent to gather into one the dispersed children of God.
The Apostle to the Emigrants studies the phenomenon of emigration in all its aspects: its magnitude, its causes, its human, social and religious consequences. While denouncing injustice and oppression, he nevertheless is also able to discern God's plan in all this. And so he discovers the Church's mission to the emigrants and the best way to fulfill her mission of evangelization and human development on their behalf.
He takes it upon himself to give a concrete answer to the needs of the migrants by founding two missionary Congregations for persons dedicated to the mission by religious consecration, namely, a Congregation for men and another one for women.
The evangelizing mission is rounded out by the work of protection and human development entrusted to lay people, especially to the St. Raphael Society.