The Missionaries of Christ Jesus are a Catholic religious institute founded in Javier, Spain in 1944 by María Camino Sanz Orrio.
[3] Orrio[a] sought total renunciation and sacrifice for herself, and imagined that the new congregation would be a difficult way of life in mission to serve to the poorest, the abandoned, and the sick.
They sought to be women of faith and prayer, anchored in the essentials: the love of Jesus Christ and the consecration to the Mission.
[citation needed] On 27 June 1954 the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith elevated the Missionaries of Christ Jesus to the status of an Institute of Pontifical Law.
Currently there are 312 missionaries from Spain, Japan, India, Belgium, Slovenia, Congo, Bolivia, Chile, Venezuela, Guatemala, the Philippines and Vietnam.
[5] As of 2013[update], they are present in Spain, Asia (China, Philippines, Japan, India), in the Americas (Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Venezuela) and in Africa (Congo, Cameroon, Chad);[8] the general office is in Madrid.
[1] The congregation runs the San Pedro Parish School in Los Chaguaramos, Venezuela[9] and continues to maintain a presence in Javier, Spain.