15th Annual
Syracuse Catholic Women's Conference

Born and raised in Italy, Antonella Di Piazza is a perpetually professed member of the Fr. Kolbe Missionaries of the Immaculata. She is the National Director of the Militia of the Immaculata USA. As a missionary, Antonella has promoted Consecration to Mary according to the teachings of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Italy, Poland and the United States. She served as general editor for the first critical edition of The Writings of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe. As an expert, she appears on EWTN Live and The Church Universal.

Ordained in Italy in 2008, Fr. Jacinto Mary Chapin is a member of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, who live a Marian-Franciscan form of life, after the example of St. Maximilian Kolbe. He is currently the guardian and novice master at Mount Saint Francis Hermitage in Maine, NY. Raised in a nominally Catholic family, he had a reversion to the Faith in early adulthood and discovered his vocation while attending Christendom College. He has been assigned to friaries in Indiana, Wisconsin and Connecticut.

Sr. Pia Jude joined the Sisters of Life in 2013, leaving a career as a litigation attorney at a prestigious law firm in Manhattan. She has served in outreach, sharing the liberating Gospel message of life through the Respect Life Office for the Archdiocese of New York, in the Sisters’ missions to the Co-Workers of Life, and to university students in Denver. Most recently, Sister assists the Superior General at the Motherhouse. She loves great saint biographies and sees each person as a saint in the making.