DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY, called SERVANTS OF THE POOR. - Institute founded in Montréal in 1843 by Msgr. Ignazio Bourget and Mrs. Marie Emmélie Eugène Tavernier, widow Gamelin, for the care of the poor and sick in hospitals and nursing homes, and of children in kindergartens, orphanages, dispensaries, etc. Approved by the Holy See in 1900, they now have 125 houses with 3,552 religious.
DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY, called SISTERS OF MERCY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL. - Religious congregation established in Zagreb in 1856 through the work of several religious who had come from the house of Zams (Bressanone), belonging to the Institute of the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, whose name it retained, although constituted as an autonomous Congregation. The sisters devote themselves to the care of the sick in hospitals and private homes, as well as to the instruction and education of children. Approved by the Holy See in 1930, the Institute numbered in 1942 more than 2,000 sisters in 140 houses, distributed throughout Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria.