DAUGHTERS OF MARY OUR LADY. - Institute founded in New Britain (United States) by the Polish priest Lucian Bojanowski, for the direction of an orphanage in the form of a pious association. In 1929 it took the form of a religious Congregation for the care of orphans and the elderly. It has 16 houses with 154 sisters. It received approval from the Holy See in 1936.

Giulio Mandelli

DAUGHTERS OF MARY MOST HOLY SORROWFUL AND OF ST. PHILIP NERI (Seville). - In 1859 the priest Francesco Garcia Tejero, of the oratory of St. Philip Neri, founded in Seville this Congregation of sisters, which obtained the decree of praise in 1874 and definitive approval in 1909. The rule was conformed to the Code in 1943.

The Congregation, not very developed, proposes, according to the spirit of St. Philip Neri, to educate and redeem young women who have fallen or are in danger, and to impart a Christian education to female youth, in reformatories and colleges. In 1948 it consisted of 8 houses and 90 sisters.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Arch. S. Congr. dei Religiosi, S. 7.

Agostino Pugliese

DAUGHTERS OF MARY MOST HOLY OF THE ORTO

Also called Gianelline. Institute founded in Chiavari by St. Anthony M. Gianelli in 1829 for the education and instruction of youth in nurseries and schools of every grade, and for the care of the sick. Approved by the ecclesiastical authority, the Institute is today very widespread in Italy, America and Asia with 75 houses and over 2000 religious.

Bibliography

BIBL.: L. Sanguinetti, Compendio della vita del b. Antonio M. Gianelli, Isola Liri 1924, p. 38 agg. Silverio Abutti

DAUGHTERS OF MARY OR SCOLOPIAN DAUGHTERS OF MARY (Barcelona). - From as early as the year 1829 there existed in the dioceses of Gerona, Barcelona and Vich the Institute of the D. of M., who occupied themselves with the religious and civil instruction of girls according to the spirit of St. Joseph Calasanz. They were distinguished into masacre and operaie. They were approved in 1860 and ten years later the constitutions were also temporarily approved. To the original title the specification "Scolopian" was later added. The constitutions were definitively approved in 1887. In 1949 the Institute had 50 houses in which 726 sisters lived.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: Arch. S. Congr. dei Religiosi, G. 4; M. Heimbucher, Die Orden und Kongregationen der katholischen Kirche, II, Paderborn 1934, p. 314.

Agostino Pugliese

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Daughters of Mary Our Lady

DAUGHTERS OF MARY MOST HOLY OF THE ORTO

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