Pallotti’s foundation had a very remarkable and touching history; it is a new form of an “Association” and got right away in 1835 the approval from the competent ecclesiastical authority.

It is a community, which unites priests, religious, lay people and takes as name “Catholic Apostolate”. The spring-like beginning was witness to many initiatives answering to the manifold needs of the Church (Foreign Mission, Popular Mission, Retreat work) and in the City of Rome (Evening Schools, Soup Kitchen, Orphanage – Pia Casa di Carità, etc.).

But the new ideas soon met with suspicion, many people could not understand his ideas and Pallotti had again and again defend his vision and his foundation. After his death the name of his foundation was changed into “Pious Mission Society” and there remained only the community of priest and brothers and the community of sisters. But the members of these communities never forgot that the idea of Pallotti was more than their present realisation.