{"id":305816,"date":"2018-01-20T17:54:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/thank-you-gis\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:36:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:36:14","slug":"thank-you-gis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/thank-you-gis\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Gis!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Funerale<\/a>With gratitude for \u201cher example of heroic faithfulness to God\u2019s plan for her,\u201d Focolare president Maria Voce, informed Focolare members around the world<\/strong> of her death following a long life spent in its entirety for unity. \u201cEven in the pain of this huge loss,\u201d said Maria Voce, \u201cwe are forever one heart and one soul with her.\u201d Gisella Calliari had been born in Lavis, Trent, Italy on April 18, 1920.<\/strong> She was simply known as Gis, one of the first young women, along with her sister, to follow Chiara Lubich in the \u201cadventure of unity,\u201d which led to the starting of the Focolare Movement and its expansion around the world. She was the youngest of three sisters and met Chiara in 1944 in that tiny apartment that lodged the first hearth in Piazza Cappuccini,Trent. The next day, she decided to follow Chiara along the same path. The first hostile reaction from her family was softened when her mother met Igino Giordani who hired Gisella to be his secretary in Rome. During her long life, Gis spent more than 40 years living with Chiara.<\/strong> After living in several focolares in Italy \u2013 in Trent, Rome, Milan and Florence, she took charge of the women\u2019s section of the focolarinas. Then, she worked alongside the foundress and Oreste Basso in following the development of the Work of Mary worldwide. This provided her with the opportunity to visit Focoare communities around the world. Her whole life was very profoundly linkded to the charism of unity, to which she was faithful until the last. Focolare.org will soon publish a more extensive biography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gisella Calliari, one of the first focolarinas, passed away today, on January 20 at the age of 97. Her long life was continually aimed at the realization of Jesus\u2019s dream: that all be one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}