The Founder of the association, Msgr Luigi Novarese, personally experienced a long-term stay in a hospital and the consequent feeling of uselessness and frustration given by a permanent illness; it was then that he approached the only truth capable of offering an answer to the suffering man: faith and joining up with Christ crucified and resurrected. This personal experience allowed Msgr. Novarese ( expert in suffering and in Mary matters) and Sister Elvira Myriam Psorulla to convey the dramatic appeal from the world of suffering and the earnest requests of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate to a same answer: the apostolate of CVS. Its members are suffering people that accept the exhortation of the Blessed Virgin to discover in Jesus Christ crucified and resurrected the only offer of sense and salvation for their life and the unavoidable call to become announcers of the Gospel.

The activity of CVS is held in cooperation with the Silenziosi Operai della Croce (Silent Workers of the Cross), an association of consecrated people sprung up within the same context of evangelization; they are totally devoted to apostolate as an aswer to the basic need, typical of each charisma, of finding in the dedication of oneself a total and radical fulfilment.