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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND A Short History of Mount Rosary Institutions: Mount Rosary was founded on June 27, 1937 by a holy Priest of the diocese of Mangalore, Very Rev. Msgr. Francis Elias D'Souza. The first service started was a tuberculosis sanatorium of 50 beds, both for men and women patients. Subsequently care and service was initiated for the aged and the dying by Msgr. Francis Elias D'Souza, especially for those who had no family members or children to take care of them in the last days of their life. After the demise of Msgr. Francis Elias D'Souza, another holy Priest, known for Marian devotion in the diocese of Mangalore, Fr. John Menezes succeeded at Mount Rosary as the director, and he started the service of a home for the destitute and unwanted people especially the unwed mothers. Succeeding three directors at Mount Rosary continued these threefold services to the best of their ability by improving various facilities either in agriculture or in health, or in providing other infra-structures. Sisters, Helpers of Mount Rosary: When Fr. Edwin C.Pinto arrived as the sixth director of Mount Rosary, in the year 1989, he recognized the need of a group of trained and committed sisters, to serve in the various services at Mount Rosary and be witnesses of Jesus through these works of charities, in the surrounding villages of Alangar, Moodbidri, among Christians, Hindus, Muslims and Jains as well. Therefore, with the permission of the church he founded the Pious Association of Sisters, Helpers of Mount Rosary in the year 1990. The Helpers of Mount Rosary is not a Pontifical congregation. Presently there are 51 Professed sisters and 21 trainees. Besides this, we have nine students studying in jigh school and pre-university who desire to be siters in the future. The sisters daily pray for religious vocations, not so much for numbers but more of fervour. Fr. Edwin Pinto was called by the Bishop of Mangalore, Most. Rev. Aloysius D'Souza to be the Vicar General of the diocese, as the first vicar General to the new Bishop of Mangalore after the death of Bishop Basil D'Souza. Soon after Sr. Prescilla D'Mello was made the Administrator of Mount Rosary Charitable Institutions, from the year 1997. After serving five years as the Vicar General, Msgr. Edwin C. Pinto has come back to Mount Rosary as the Spiritual Director of the sisters and inmates at the Institutions. In the year 2005, Helpers of Mount Rosary, with the permission of the Holy See, has become a Religious Congregation of the Diocesan Right. The Present Situation:
We are around 250 inmates and sisters at Mount Rosary, 200 are various inmates either living in the re-habilitation ward of Tuberculosis sanatorium, home for the aged people, or at the home for the destitute. The rest are sisters and trainees. Hence everyday we need food for 250 members and 16 daily wage workers, who labour in our agricultural enterprises.
Our main food is rice and vegetables. We need also a sizable quantity of milk because of the sick and the aged and therefore we have a dairy. To provide meat, we have a small piggery and a poultry programme.
In the agricultural lands Mount Rosary Institution possesses, we have year marked five acres of land, both for rice cultivation and alternatively for growing vegetables, in the other land that is available, we have around 500 coconut trees and a hundred cashew trees, even number of mango, jackfruit trees and of late, we have planted a little rubber, pepper wines and areca trees as well. Therefore we have enough production of coconuts for our whole year's need, both for our food and oil needs. Our rubber is just coming to yield. But pepper, areca etc will come to yield in the near future.
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