DAUGHTERS OF THE DIVINE SAVIOUR (Buenos Aires). - In 1795 Mother Maria Antonia de la Paz y Figueroa had founded a "beaterio," that is, an association of pious persons who, while not taking vows, lived a common life under the guidance of a superior with the aim of promoting the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius among the faithful, gathering those who wished into suitable houses. The initiative survived and developed, at first only as a society approved by the government, then as a pious society which in 1878 Msgr. Mariano Giuseppe de Escalada, archbishop of Buenos Aires, erected into a religious Congregation with simple vows.

On May 19, 1933 the Institute received the decree of praise and the temporary approval of its constitutions; and on Jan. 26, 1942 the definitive approval. Besides the work of the exercises, the congregation's members devote themselves to preserving young women from the dangers of evil, receiving them in special colleges. In 1947 it had 7 houses with 65 sisters.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Archivio S. Congr. dei Religiosi, B, 133.

Giulio Mandelli

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Daughters of the Divine Saviour (Buenos Aires)

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