Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948 Religious orders Women's orders and congregations

Handmaids of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

ANCELLE DELL'IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE DELLA BEATA MARIA VERGINE

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Also known as: Latin: Ancillae Immaculatae Conceptionis

HANDMAIDS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. - A religious institute that originated in 1850 through the work of a pious and noble gentleman, Edmund Bojanowski, with the approval of the bishop of Gniezno and Poznań. Despite the many difficulties caused by the Russian government, the institute developed considerably and by 1860 already had 18 houses. In 1877 its suppression was decreed and the sisters were forced to wear secular dress. No longer able to devote themselves to the education of youth, they dedicated themselves to the care of the sick. After the death of the founder (1871), the difference of language, character and political conditions of the nations in which the institute had spread caused it to divide into four distinct branches. That of Gniezno-Poznań kept its original title and became sui juris in 1897. It was approved by the Holy See in 1930 and has 70 houses with more than 400 religious.

Silverio Mattei

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 1166.

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Mattei, Silverio. “Ancelle Dell'Immacolata Concezione della Beata Maria Vergine.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1166. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/ancelle-dell-immacolata-concezione-della-beata-maria-vergine.

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Mattei, Silverio. “Ancelle Dell'Immacolata Concezione della Beata Maria Vergine.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1166. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ancelle-dell-immacolata-concezione-della-beata-maria-vergine.

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@incollection{ec1_ancelle_dell_immacolata_concez,
  author    = {Mattei, Silverio},
  title     = {Ancelle Dell'Immacolata Concezione della Beata Maria Vergine},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {1166},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ancelle-dell-immacolata-concezione-della-beata-maria-vergine}
}

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