BENEDICTINES OF OUR LADY OF CALVARY. – A reform of the great Benedictine Order carried out by Fr. Giuseppe da Tremblay, the illustrious Capuchin better known by the name of “Grey Eminence,” with the collaboration of Antoinette d’Orléans, at Poitiers on 15 October 1617. On 22 March 1621 they were approved by Gregory XV. Suppressed during the Revolution, the institute was restored by a brief of 19 November 1828 from Leo XII. The sisters lead a contemplative life not divorced from the active life of teaching and caring for boarders. Today they have 10 houses with about 150 religious.
BIBL.: L. Dedouvres, Le p. Joseph de Paris, capucin. L’éminence grise, II, Paris 1932, pp. 323 ff.; Anon., La fontaine de la Congrégation des B. de N. D. du C., Poitiers 1932. Silverio Mattei