HANDMAIDS OF MARY OR OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. - Institute derived from that of the Handmaids of the Immaculate Conception (v. above) and which became sui juris in 1890, with the title of Handmaids of Mary, also called "of Poremba", a town in Silesia, where, in 1866, Bojanowski sent some sisters to open a house. They devote themselves to the care of the sick in hospitals, and to the assistance of children in orphanages and nursery schools. Before the Second World War it numbered 200 houses with 1,500 religious.
Mattei, Silverio. “Ancelle di Maria O Dell'Immacolata Concezione.” 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-di-maria-o-dell-immacolata-concezione.
MLA
Mattei, Silverio. “Ancelle di Maria O Dell'Immacolata Concezione.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1166. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ancelle-di-maria-o-dell-immacolata-concezione.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_ancelle_di_maria_o_dell_immaco,
author = {Mattei, Silverio},
title = {Ancelle di Maria O Dell'Immacolata Concezione},
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-di-maria-o-dell-immacolata-concezione}
}
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