(Rivista Internazionale - December 1996: Blessed Gerard’s Care Centre - 1/1)
On 3 September 1996, the anniversary of the death of the founder of the Order, the Blessed
Gerard's Care Centre was inaugurated in Mandeni, South Africa. The ceremony was officiated by Msgr Mansuet Dela Biyase, local Ordinary, in the diocese of Eshowe, Zululand province.
Particular thanks go to Count
Albrecht Rechberg,
Knight Grand Cross of Obedience, and to the President of the Malteser Hilfsdienst of Munich, Manfred Schultz, Knight of Magistral Grace, for having contributed to the
realisation of the Centre.
Knight of Magistral
Grace Daniel Meehan, of the US Federal
Association, has also
provided funds for
building a kindergarten
in Savana, for the
children of working mothers.
The Care Centre consists of a chapel, which can be enlarged by pushing back two mobile walls, a sitting room and two rooms with five beds, two with three beds and four with one bed. The rooms with one bed are for the terminally ill. There is also a
kitchen, laundry, classroom and some rooms for the staff. |