FIGLIE DEL DIVIN SALVATORE (Vienna). - The Institute originated in 1849 through the work of Elisabetta Eppinger, assisted by the Reverend Davide Richard, parish priest of Niederbronn in Alsace. In 1857 some sisters of the new Institute were requested in Vienna to direct an orphanage in the parish of Reindorf, where they later also began to care for the sick in hospitals and in their homes.
On 3 April 1866, for political reasons, above all because Alsace had passed under France, Cardinal Rauscher, Archbishop of Vienna, separated the Vienna house from that of Niederbronn and erected it into a diocesan Congregation. The new Institute developed flourishingly; on 10 July 1928 it obtained definitive approval from the Holy See, and in 1936 its constitutions too were approved. The mother house is in Vienna; in 1948 the Institute had 60 houses and 1,100 sisters.