SONS OF SAINT MARY IMMACULATE. - Giuseppe Frassinetti, prior of St. Sabina in Genoa, had founded in 1861 the "Pious Union of the Sons of St. Mary Immaculate." The members, while living in the world, had a particular rule of Christian life.

In 1865 Frassinetti put to the members the idea of a house for living a common life: three young men responded and on 14 Jan. 1866 they carried out the plan. After the founder died in 1868, the work was continued by Fr. Antonio Piccardo, who, called to Rome in 1902, founded the ecclesiastical Institute "Mary Immaculate," which was the seat of the Roman diocesan Congregation of the Sons of St. Mary Immaculate, erected by decree of 8 Dec. 1903, later recognized as of pontifical right by Pius X on 21 May 1904, with the purpose of training the ecclesiastical youth and of assisting, instructing and educating youth in general.

The Congregation received its definitive approval on 4 June 1910 and its Constitutions on 17 June 1931. It currently numbers (1949) about 100 religious.

Quirino Proni

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Sons of Saint Mary Immaculate

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