Ajmer: Sr Savina Pinto Elected New Superior General of Mission Sisters
 
Daijiworld Media Network – Ajmer (RD)
 
Ajmer, Sep 19: Sr Savina Pinto has been elected Superior General of the Congregation of Mission Sisters of Ajmer (MSA) for a six-year term at their Generalate of XII General Chapter, here, recently. She is the first from the undivided Dakshina Kannada district to be elected to this post.
 
Sr Pinto (nee Jacintha Pinto) hails from Sastan in Udupi district of Karnataka.  She joined the MSA congregation to become a zealous missionary for Christ in North India. After completing her higher studies on Franciscan Spirituality in Rome, she was entrusted with various responsibilities of her religious congregation.

She was appointed as Novice Mistress, then nominated as Regional Superior and was elected as Assistant General of the Congregation for 12 years.
 
Sr Pinto is the daughter of the late Dr Sylvester Pinto, an eminent medical practitioner of Sastan and the late Faustine Buthello. Her family has many pursuing religious vocations. Her three sisters - the late Sr Jasilla BS, the late Sr Alvina MSA and Sr Wilma, Sisters of Charity at St Gerosa Convent, Jeppu, Mangalore, are religious nuns.
 
The Congregation of MSA has communities in Sastan, Kerala, Maharastra, and especially in North India. The nuns are engaged in medical, teaching and socio-pastoral apostolate. The sisters of the congregation will be celebrating the centenary of their presence in India shortly.