FIGLIE DELLA PROVVIDENZA (Modena). — In 1828 the Community of the Figlie di Gesù, which in Modena was in charge of the charity school, was dissolved. Following this, three sisters from the disbanded Community, through the efforts of the pious and learned priest Severino Fabriani, took the name of F. della P. and, at the invitation of the ducal government, remained in part of the building to care for deaf-mutes, who had previously lived there with other girls in the charity school. The new Institute was approved by Gregory XVI on 9 January 1845, and in the first days of July 1857 it was honoured by a visit from Pius IX, who, moved by the sight of the infirm girls so well educated, left the sisters this blessing upon his departure: «Blessed are the F. della P., who make the mute speak!».
The constitutions, approved in 1855 by the Ordinary of Modena, received temporary apostolic approval on 6 July 1932, and definitive approval on 7 January 1941.
The purpose of the Institute is the education and instruction of deaf-mute girls; it has 5 houses with 45 sisters, who take a fourth vow of charity toward deaf-mutes.