A.Maria Vissani, M. Piccotti, Shalom,
In punta di piedi. Lo stupore dell’adorazione,
Castelplanio AN 2008

A.M. Vissani, Sul Monte,
Pregare è pace,
Series Meditazioni, Castelplanio AN 2006

A.M. Vissani, Sul Monte,
Silenzio è amore,
Series Meditazioni, Castelplanio AN 2006

A.M. Vissani, Sul Monte,
L’essenziale è libertà,
Series Meditazioni, Castelplanio AN 2006

Saint Maria De Mattias
Letters. Volume I -VI, 1833-1866
Edited by Angela Di Spirito and Luciana ColuzziThe correspondence recovered over time, which consists of 1,434 letters, is all related to the institution of the Work (the Congregation). It begins, in fact, on the vigil of the foundation, with two letters that function as its introduction, and runs for the entire span of 32 years: the time of the beginnings until the death of the pioneer. It weaves the fabric of the history of the origins of the Adorers and, in filigree, offers a window on Church and civil life in the mid-800’s. In addition it sketches, truly and profoundly, the life experience of the Author, a holy woman who, stubbornly, wanted to follow one sole objective: to collaborate with Christ in the redemption of humanity.An authoritative document which adds a pearl of spirituality and history to the rich tradition of the Church5 volumes, Adorers of the Blood of Christ, 2005.
Original text: Italian

Vissani A.Maria, Salvi Emilia,
Solo per amore, Maria De Mattias,
Castelplanio AN 2003

Du Signe (edited by),
Festa della Vita Santa Maria de Mattias,
Roma 2003
Translations: corean, croatian, english, italiao, kisvaili, polish, portuguese, russian, spanish, german.

Annamaria Vissani,
Identità pasquale, Jesi 2003
Original text: italian. Translation: croatian.

Mario Spinelli,
Il Tevere Scarlatto. Guida alla Roma di Maria De Mattias,
Roma 2003.
Original text: italian. Translation: english.

Angela Di Spirito - Nicla Spezzati,
Convocate nel Sangue di Cristo. La Comunità ASC alle Origini,
ASC Pagine 10, Bari 2003

M. Di Pastina,
"Per non ritardare il bene", Le Adoratrici del Sangue di Cristo a Sezze,
Sezze, 2003

Angela Di Spirito,
Guida alla Lettura di Maria De Mattias. Sussidio in sette Schede,
Bari 2003

Angela Di Spirito,
Lacrime e Fretta. La santità di Maria De Mattias,
Bari 2003

Angela Di Spirito - Nicla Spezzati,
Processo a Maria. Maria De Mattias nel Racconto dei Testimoni,
Roma 2003

A.M. Vissani, E. Salvi
Only for Love
The interior life that circulates in the veins of a woman when she gives herself to God unreservedly is always an adventure lived under the insignia of pure love. Maria De Mattias is one of those figures of saints that invite us to make our existence a gift of love, possible only if we enter into the life circuit of the Blood of ChristOnly for Love, dedicated to Maria De Mattias, is intended to be a pilgrimage in the interior life of this Saint, who lived the mystical experience of the Blood of Christ profoundly. She did not spare even a breath of her life in order to open the hearts and events of history to the silent flow of God’s love, which from the opened side of God’s Son Jesus circulates in all arteries, veins and capillaries of humanity and regenerates it. Rome 2003

Alma Pia Spieler,
Die Frau, Die Predigt. Heiligsprechung von Maria De Mattias,
Schaan, 2003

Michele Colagiovanni,
Maria De Mattias e gli anni di Vallecorsa,
Roma 2003

Michele Colagiovanni,
Il Mondo tra le Braccia, Santa Maria De Mattias,
Roma 2003

Vissani A.Maria, Salvi Emilia, Sul Monte,
Solo per amore, Maria De Mattias,
Castelplanio AN 2003.

A.M. Vissani, Sul Monte,
L’identità Pasquale,
Castelplanio AN 2003.

Loretta Gegen
Beata Netemeyer. Woman of Courage and Vision
For those who wish to know the life of  midwestern pioneers in the United States of America, this N. 15 of the “Profile” series offers a scrupulously documented and carefully presented window, in a linguistically refined style that makes for very pleasant reading.
The “pioneer” this time is a woman who seems destined to that vocation right from infancy. Louisa, the eleventh and last child of the Netemeyer family, has to train herself to detachment from her dear loved ones very early, and to look forward continually, abandoning milestones that have been reached, because the goal is “beyond”.
She, pioneer among pioneers, experiences a substantial difference however, the same one that distinguishes Abraham from the nomads of his time. He does not leave to enjoy the thrill of adventure or to conquer enticing wealth, but to obey, in faith, the voice of One who promises other wealth, that of a long descendence.
156 pp., CIS, Rome, 2002
Original text: English. Translation: Italian.

Loretta Gegen,
Born f the Courage and the Gratitude. Story of the Ministry of the Blood of Christ in Korea,
ST. Louis MO 2002

Du Signe (edited by.),
Una Pianta, molti Rami ... Un Seme L'Avventura delle Adoratrici del Sangue di Cristo, nel 50° Anniversario di Beatificazione di Maria De Mattias,
Roma, 2000. Original text: french. Translated in seven languages: croatian, english, italian, poland, portugues, spanish, german.

Loretta Gegen,
What Love Can Do " A Vocation that Encircled the Globe". A Biography of Maria De Mattias,
Belleville, 2000. Translation: italian and spanish.

I. Kezić,
Hermina Gantert, Pioniera nella Bosnia,
ASC, Profili 8, Roma 2000
Original text: italian. Translation: croatian, english, german.

Ivana Paialunga,
Adoratrici del Sangue di Cristo,
in La sostanza dell'Effimero. Gli abiti degli Ordini Religiosi in Occidente, scheda 208, pages. 597-601

M. Menezes,
Serafina Cinque. L'angelo della Trasamazzonia,
ASC Profili 12, Roma, 2000
Original text: italian. Translation: english, portuguese, german.

Giorgio Campanini,
La fatica del cammello - Il cristiano tra ricchezza e povertà,
July 1, 2000

La comunità del Centro di Spiritualità di Castelplanio,
Sul monte,
Series Le Perle, Preghiere e Poesie, Castelplanio, AN,
Nnovember 1, 2000

La comunità del Centro di Spiritualità di Castelplanio,
Il Signore provvede,
Series Le Perle, Preghiere e Poesie, Castelplanio, AN,
November 1, 2000

La comunità del Centro di Spiritualità di Castelplanio,
Alla sera io ti invoco,
Series Le Perle, Preghiere e Poesie, Castelplanio, AN,
November 1, 2000

La comunità del Centro di Spiritualità di Castelplanio,
Eppure Tu sei sceso fin qui.
Poesie nate da un pellegrinaggio in Terra Santa,
Series Le Perle, Preghiere e Poesie, Castelplanio, AN,
November 1, 2000

La comunità del Centro di Spiritualità di Castelplanio,
Sia benedetto il Sangue di Cristo,
Series Le Perle, Preghiere e Poesie, Castelplanio, AN,
November 1, 2000

Michele Colagiovanni
Beauty in Short Lives - ASC Triptych
A single book for three lives. Three autonomous stories that intertwine conceptually. A triptych, that is, that recalls three young Adorers who lived in different times. Their lives are completed in twenty years. Therefore, these are not pioneers; their lives are not enriched by great works, nor are they martyrs, all characteristics of other women featured in this series. They are young women in love with an ideal to which they are dedicating themselves, and whose lives are marked by a consistence with their ideal.
Lives whose earthly happenings are cut short while in full bloom, and beautiful by all standards.
182 pp., CIS, Rome, 1999
Original: italian
Translation: english

Stanley J. Konieczny
Acting in the Most Noble Tradition
The Life and Ministry of the Adorers' Five Martyrs of Charity
The fourteenth volume of ASC PROFILES leads us page after page to meet five women: Adorers of the Blood of Christ, missionaries in Liberia when it was being torn apart by civil war. They are women who, as an ASC community, chose to remain with the people in an embrace of sol­idarity characteristic of those who feel every person and every expres­sion of humanity are precious. It is the history and the narration of ideals and life in confrontation, as experienced by the five ASC Martyrs of Charity: M. Joel Kolmer, Agnes Mueller, Barbara Ann Muttra, Shirley Kolmer and Kathleen McGuire.
66 pp., CIS, Rome, 1999
Original: english
Translation: italian

Nicla Spezzati
Joy of Living
A Community in Liberia
Appreciating life. Building communion in the risk of everyday situations and times, to the extent of dying. This is the story of five sisters of the United States, Adorers of the Blood of Christ who were killed in Liberia in 1992 ... an entire community. With their life they wrote a page in the 20th century martyrology.
The narration, which runs parallel with pictures in this booklet, recalls the protagonists through reading their thoughts and gathering others' testimony of their lives.
32 pp., with colored illustrations - CIS, Rome, 1999
Original: italian
Translation: english

Nicla Spezzati
The Work is God's
Giovanni Merlini and the Adorers of the Blood of Christ with unpublished letters
With the guidance of Giovanni Merlini, Maria De Mattias founds, builds and consolidates the Congregation of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ. The author reads the foundation journey in its early difficult years as an intense and deep relationship between two persons bent on seeking and doing "the great will of God:' and therefore, a relationship that resembles a fertile seed in the social, ecclesial plan.
In fact, in the Merlini-De Mattias relationship, one cannot separate the Foundress from her Congregation, in the sense that the Missionary from Spoleto is, is heard, and is interpreted by his interlocutor as the spiritu­al guide and superior, both of the Foundress and of her Congregation, inseparably.
The many letters of the Director to the Adorers published for the first time in the appendix support that concept. This study, therefore, offers us a profile of Giovanni Merlini as an excellent guide of persons and of works, where the work is understood as "The Work of God”. But it offers us, at the same time, the picture of a successful spiritual association. If on the one hand, the author is very careful to emphasize the broad visions, the patient personality, the discretion and flexibility of Merlini, the "traveling companion", on the other hand, she evidences also the active and Original role of Maria, her autonomous and creative contributions requested and accepted by the same guide. A re-reading of primary sources in this feminine view is one of the trea­sures of this work, a contemporary contribution expressed by the author. (Mario Spinelli). 265 pp, Center for Studies in the Blood of Christ, Rome, 1999
Original: italian. In translation: english

Nicla Spezzati
At Every Season
... A face in the mirror, the seasons of the life, love and courage of a woman of the 1800's. A true story that has made a long journey. This narrative interprets the story in an Original and inspired view. Simplicity and poetry interlace and, in spurts, sketch its characters and situations. A watercolor in delicate and warm tones; mystery touches the everyday, quietly and unpretentiously!
A story that interweaves love and pain. Like in a lace ... " (Bruno Cantamessa)
Part of the series - STORIES (I RACCONTI) by Città Nuova Publishers, it is a narrative work based on the life of Maria De Mattias, and can also be found in bookstores.
Display posters ore available.
120 pp, Città Nuova Publishers, 1999
Original: italian

Emilia Salvi - Anna Maria Vissani,
Guardate a Lui... e sarete raggianti.
Brevi meditazioni bibliche sul mistero del Sangue di Cristo.
Series Meditazioni, Castelplanio AN

In India. Terra dei colori,
Firenze, luglio 1999. Translation: english: A Land of Colours

Angela Tocco, a cura di,
Una bimba vivace,
Castelplanio AN, 1999
Translations: A bright little girl, english translation by Bertha Fischer

M. Colagiovanni,
La bellezza dell'incompiuto trittico,
ASC Profili 13, roma, 1999

Vissani, Salvi, Piccotti,
La vigna di Fortunato ...e altre storie,
Castelplanio, AN 1998

Anna Maria Vissani e Emilia Salvi,
La donna marchigiana, Una femminilità vissuta in pienezza,
CEPSAG, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma 1998

Ines Kezić
Hermina Gantert, Pioneer in Bosnia
This story of Hermina Gantert's life recounts the essentials of her jour­ney and draws a profile of a woman, who, wisely and prudently follow­ing the historical circumstances of the time, becomes a pioneer for the Adorers in the country of Bosnia. "Her daughters," it is said of her, "respected and honored her.” She was exceptionally patient and meek as she dealt respectfully with the challenges of the Islamic culture preva­lent in the Balkans, keeping the Christian faith and a special consecra­tion to the Blood of Christ alive. This fruitful seed grew into a strong tree of followers, who, because of political events over time, will have as a distinctive characteristic, a continuous call to the Paschal Mystery, according to the charism of Maria De Mattias.
Original: italian
Translation: english (In preparation)

Antonietta Maraone,
Catherine Pavoni - Charismatic Leader
The fourth volume in this collection presents a special lady who led the Congregation during a demanding time: Catherine Pavoni. She was a strong, determined lady, and gentle at the same time. In her the Divine Presence becomes an amazing facility for discernment, for herself and for the Community of Adorers, in that work which the author calls "re-foundation."
The book offers us a very life-like portrait, built upon sources that were elaborated faithfully.
99pp, CIS, Rome, 1998
Original: italian. Translations: english, german

Kathleen Washington
revision: Myerscough A. - Gegen L. - Palus E.
Pauline Schneeberger - an International Woman
To read the account of this fifth booklet of the PROFILES series is to take a long voyage, in the steps of a lady who measures her identity as Adorer of the Blood of Christ by welcoming multi-culturality in her life. Pauline Schneeberger, a person of extraordinary faith and immeasurable trust in God, was a dynamic apostle. Because of her natural gift of leadership, she was asked to serve as superior in three very different areas of the Congregation: in what eventually became the province of Zagreb, in the province of Columbia and in that of Schaan. In the history of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, she is a uniquely international woman.
84 pp., CIS, Rome, 1998
Original: english. Translations: italian, german

Lucja Partyka
Lidwina Sikora - 1879 - 1978
Lidwina Sikora, born in Poland, chose to enter the Adorers of the Most Precious Blood; and with the guidance of a Trappist priest entered the postulancy in Bosnia in 1907. For almost forty years she fulfilled a great variety of services in the community, with exemplary humility and a pas­sionate, loving zeal for Christ. Her expressed and secret dream was to return to Poland to spread the spirituality of the Precious Blood of Christ there. In 1946 this long-awaited desire was founded fulfilled. Lidwina returned to Poland with eight Polish companions. She founded and led the first ASC community in that country. Her holiness continues to be recognized by others also in death.
87 pp., CIS, Wroclaw, 1998
Original: Polish. Translations: italian, english (In preparation)

Marilia Menezes
revision: Gegen L., Myerscough L., Palus E.
Serafina Cinque. Angel of Trans-Amazonia
A fascinating story, woven of unlimited charity. A life that unfurls quiet­ly, leaving seedited byties behind and becoming humble service for all. In a Brazilian environment rich in pathos, in the 1940's and '50's, the life of Serafina Cinque, daughter of italian immigrants, becomes the symbol and significance of God's provident tenderness for the voiceless poor. It is this same population who today has asked that the process of her canonization be started.
85 pp., CIS, Manaus, 1998
Original: portuguese Translation: italian, english

Michele Colagiovanni
The Wind of the Burning Bush
A representation of blood can hardly appear more complete and con­tradictory, or more revelatory of the characteristic of life, than in this book, the first in a new series published by CIS. "Does the image of blood point to assassinations, wars, lust, transmission of illnesses, highway accidents, exploitation of human and natural resources? That is a sign that Satan's plan predominates. Does its representation make one I think of: communion, solidarity, service, donation, respect, ecology, Christ? God's intentions predominate.” Delving into every contradiction, every possible version and conversion of multiple questions, the author offers us a thought-provoking work, a piece of reflection which moves across the fields of Scripture, philoso­phy, theology, science, history and edited byent events. Life signed in blood, whether it be blessed or edited byed, respected or vilified and crushed, poured out in a thousand ways or contemplated and protected to understand the transcendent in it, is undoubtedly the reason for this work. Stimulating for personal reflection and suitable for reflection in common. A versatile and very impressive work.
153 pp., CIS, Rome, 1998 Original: italian. Translation: english