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Her parents were José Salles and Valle and Francisco Barangueras and Planell. They gave a solid Christian formation, whose characteristic feature was a filial love for Mary. Inherited patrilineal sense of honesty and responsibility at work, love of justice, along with a mingled feeling of deep tenderness, affection and closeness.
Matrilineal inherited a strong sense of Religion to see God in life, who cares for his creatures with provident love. From her she learned to always seek God's will, to transcend life and yet to be architect of peace and reconciliation among the brothers. She was the second of ten brothers.. Her early years were of a great sacrifice, a life of austerity and renunciation. Times were difficult because of social unrest, where hunger and economic hardship were at par. In her large family she saw how her parents sacrificed to give education and culture to their children. At the peak of the industrial revolution, her father had to seek a lively hood, and led the family to Manresa.
Her parents took her to the school of the Society of Mary and there she learned prayers that were etched in his mind and traditions that marked her life later "When I was 6 years old. It was proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1854. Carmeta lived intensely this event, with the entire town.
A Marian year, a key year in her life, It was that of 1858. On February 11 the Virgin appears in Lourdes to Bernadette and it brings her confirmation of the dogma defined. This year she went with the familiar pilgrimage to Montserrat and it was also her first communion, at which moment she said to Jesus that she would be all for him. She was already pointing out her religious vocation.
In Montserrat,byMary's feet left that determination. So since that time, her life was consecrated to God through Mary.
In a time, when women went from parental care to the husband. She was betrothed to a young Spaniard, which meant for her the need of fighting to follow the path she had set. She managed to break the engagement and entered the novitiate of the Adores Sisters which is dedicated to the recovery of marginal women, crime, or prostitution. Her concern and reasoning skills led her to wonder how those women would have been if the Society had given them other opportunities. S he decided to dedicate her life to training for women so they could have in society the rightful place in any social class could be found.
At this time she entered in a Religious Congregation dedicated to teach and to educate women: the Dominicans of the Anunciata, founded by Fr Coll, who received her in the novitiate. For 22 years she devoted herself to education in a variety of places. she ran a school for the children of working women so meanwhile they will not be on the streets. In Barcelona she led a school devoted to teach the middle class, and she managed to use it for night classes, aided by the students of day shift ,with the attendance of 300 workers.
She tried to increase women's culture and to educate youth in a deep piety, well-grounded, without sentimentality, which anticipates the mentality most common of her time , so that everyone could understand that women should go beyond the first letters and "sex work".
Among other internal problems she was accused of wanting to fill the women´s head with vanity.In1889Carmen started a thouroughly search. She prayed, consulted and began to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit that spoke to her heart and also to lived by the circumstances .
The serious problems occured late 1891 and early 1892. The truth is that she never wanted to leave definitively the Dominican Congregation, but displaying a branch of that tree. She wanted to stay home to continue to provide education in it. But she was refused, and she was forced to start a new road. Accompanied by three friends-Candelaria BoMISIONARYleda, Remedios Pujol and Emilia-Horta started a new congregation in the Church, called at first: Conceptionists of Saint Dominic. Today, Concepcionists Misionaries Teachers
In a persistent search but peaceful because she trusts in God rather than herself, Carmen makes a trip to Madrid. There pending Divine Providence. The word steady and calm of Don Celestino Pazos, belonging to the Cabildo of Zamora, helps her to find the will of God. Carmen entrusts her project to Our Lady of Good Counsel, in the chapel of the Collegiate Church of S. Isidro. After praying, she tells his companions: "It is God's will., Let`s go to Burgos. `, There we will work and face everything that
comes on the way.
On October 15, 1892, feast of St. Teresa of Avila, Carmen arrives in Burgos, with her companions: Candelaria Boleda, Emilia Horta and Remedies Pujal. There is a great protector in the person of the Archbishop, D. Manuel Gómez-Salazar and Lucio Villegas, who, on December 7 of that year, gives Diocesan approval to the new Congregation and authorizes the opening of the first school concepcionist school.
On April 16, 1893 is obtained the approval of the Constitutions and Carmen Salles is appointed Superior General.
On February 29, 1908, Carmen Salles asks the Holy Father the approval of the Institute. And on September 19, the same year, she receives the Decree of Praise, awarded by St. Pius X.
From the first moment she was devoted to preparing adequately the future religious teachers. At a time when the laws did not require the title of teacher to teach in private schools of the Church, the sisters began to study graduate, Piano Teacher and introduced them to the French Language to the point of obtaining proficiency.The university would was going take some years to open its doors to women. But two years after the Institute was founded, her students were studying in Teaching.
She suggested education as a comprehensive and balanced project. The child, the youth should develop harmoniously his intelligence and his heart.
She spent his life to the service of the education of children and youth.
She used all her energies in founding up to 13 "House of Mary Immaculate", as she liked to call her communities and schools. These were: Burgos, Segovia, El Escorial, Madrid, Pozoblanco, Almaden, Valdepeñas, Manzanares, Santa Cruz de Mudela, Murchante, Barajas de Melo, Arroyo del Puerco (now de la Luz), Santa Cruz de la Zarza).
"She will remain faithful to her religious vocation dedicated to teaching. In 19 years of work, she will found 13 houses and develop a broad apostolate in schools in various cities and towns in Spain. It will emerge the figure of a woman of great character and great sweetness, who managed to overcome many difficulties along the entire itinerary of a foudress Her unshakable faith and fervent charity go hand in hand for to a great sensitivity to the Christian formation of women at a time when arose laicists pressures, secularist, and anticlerical. M. Carmen also expresses a great love for the poorest girls: indeed, in all her foundations come together to support initiatives for them. The testimonies also provide evidence on the density of her inner life and the delicacy of conscience with regard to the past painful experiences: never will hear complain or speak ill of anyone or justify her own attitudes. " (Positioning).
She also initiated preliminary steps to bring her work to Italy and Brazil.
She died in Madrid at the age of 63, on July 25, 1911 having spent her life for God and our brothers.
On December 8, 1954, feast of the Immaculate Conception and Marian Year, Pope Pius XII finally approved the Congregation, with its present name Concepcionistas Missionaries Teaching.
On 15 March 1998, Pope John Paul II beatified her, setting the date of her liturgical celebration on Dec. 6.
"While there are young people to educate and values to transmit the difficulties do not,count,´ she said. Mother Carmen continues her work in the Church through the Conceptionists Missionaries Teaching
Devotion to the Blessed Carmen Salles providentially spreads worldwide.
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