The youthful dream of becoming a missionary or mother of many children,constant yearning for a life of prayer and contemplation: none of these is the path that God has mapped out for her.

Armida Barelli he is thirty-one years old when, finally, his vocation is clear: consecrated secularism. In 1913 he consecrated himself to the Sacred Heart.

Armida discovers that to follow Christ it is not necessary to escape from the world, But that every Christian is called to mission. Anticipating intuitions and choices that will later be central to the Second Vatican Council.