FIGLIE DELL'IMMACOLATA CONCEZIO-
NE DELLA BEATA MARIA VERGINE. —
The Institute began in Rome in 1854, where two noble Polish ladies, Giuseppina Karska and Marcellina Darowska, under the guidance of Fr. Kaysiewicz, began a common life with two others who had meanwhile joined them. Thus a small community came into being which in 1859 obtained permission to wear a distinctive habit.
After 1860 the work began to develop slowly, and in 1863 it obtained the decree of praise. Having transferred to Poland, to Sazowice in the diocese of Lviv, it was subject to the political vicissitudes of Poland in those times, but continued slowly to prosper, so much so that in 1874 it obtained the decree of definitive approval and twelve years later that of temporary approval of the constitutions, which were subsequently definitively approved in 1890 and revised again on 24 November 1925.
After the death of Darowska (1911), the Institute underwent a long and arduous crisis of reorganization, aggravated by the war, which ended with the direct intervention of the Holy See in 1935.
In 1947 it had 11 houses and 293 sisters.
The purpose of the Institute is the free education of young women and manual work.