Scalabrinian
The Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo (), commonly called the Scalabrinian Missionaries, is a Catholic religious institute of brothers and priests founded by Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza in Italy, in 1887."Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo (C.S.)"
''gcatholic.org''. Retrieved 14 December 2021. The members of the congregation add the nominal letters CS after their names to indicate their membership in the Congregation. Its mission is to "maintain faith and practice among Italian emigrants in the

Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo, CS (8 July 1839 – 1 June 1905) was an Italian Catholic Church, Catholic missionary who served as Roman Catholic Diocese of Piacenza–Bobbio, Bishop of Piacenza from 1876 until his death. He was the founder of both the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo, Missionaries of Saint Charles (also known as the Scalabrinians) and the Mission Sisters of Saint Charles. Scalabrini's rise to the rank of bishop came at a rapid pace due to a series of lectures he gave on the First Vatican Council in 1872 and his staunch dedication to catechism, which led Pope Pius IX to dub him the "Apostle of the Catechism"; successive popes Leo XIII and Pius X held him in high esteem and both failed to convince him to accept appointments as head of an archdiocese or as a cardinal. He made five pastoral visits across his diocese which proved to be an exhaustive but effective mission of evangelization and his efforts at reforming seminarie ...
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