FIGLIE DELL'IMMACOLATA CONCEZIO-
NE (Buenos Aires). — The Institute’s juridical existence dates back to Sept. 1904, when the archbishop of Buenos Aires recognized it as an institute of diocesan right.
Its origins, however, are linked to the Institute of the Sisters of Charity, Daughters of the Immaculate, known as the “Turchine,” founded by Maria Foliano in the diocese of Cariati (Catanzaro). This Institute, founded on 30 Jan. 1898, was dissolved on 30 Jan. 1901, and the Ordinaries of the places where it had houses were authorized to unite them into congregations of diocesan right, modifying only the habit, the title, and the constitutions of the Institute. The Argentine Congregation developed and obtained from the Holy See the decree of praise on 14 Feb. 1934, while the constitutions, provisionally approved in 1934, received definitive approval in 1942. In 1946 it had 16 houses and 180 professed sisters.