**DAUGHTERS OF MARY IMMACULATE OF GUADALUPE** (Mexico). — Following a suggestion received from Pius IX in 1879, the priest Antonio Plancarte y Labastida founded in Zamora (Mexico) this religious Institute, with the aim of providing catechetical instruction, which was then prohibited in the State. The Archbishop of Mexico approved it along with its constitutions in 1885. The decree of praise was granted on 21 May 1895 and that of approval on 11 Aug. 1899. The constitutions were later adapted to the Code by decree of 16 Aug. 1938.
The specific purpose is the Christian and civil education of girls of all social classes, but especially of the poorest, in free schools, boarding schools, and orphanages for workers. The Institute also cares for the sick in hospitals and the elderly in hospices. In 1947, it had 47 houses and 540 sisters.