FIGLIE DI MARIA NOSTRA SIGNORA

**Daughters of Mary Our Lady.** – Institute founded in New Britain (United States) by the Polish priest Luciano Bojanowski, to direct an orphanage in the form of a pious association. In 1929 it took the form of a religious Congregation for the assistance of orphans and the elderly. It has 16 houses with 154 sisters. It received approval from the Holy See in 1936.

**Daughters of Mary Most Sorrowful and of St. Philip Neri** (Seville). – In 1859 the priest Francesco Garcia Tejero, of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, founded this Congregation of sisters in Seville, which obtained the decree of praise in 1874 and definitive approval in 1909. The rule was adapted to the Code in 1943.

The Congregation, not very widespread, proposes, in the spirit of St. Philip Neri, to educate and assist young women who have fallen or are at risk, and to provide Christian education to young women in reformatories and colleges. In 1948 it consisted of 8 houses and 90 sisters.

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

Agostino Pugliese

**Daughters of Mary Most Holy of the Garden.** – Also called Gianelline. Institute founded in Chiavari by St. Anthony Mary Gianelli in 1829 for the education and instruction of youth in kindergartens and schools of every level, and for the care of the sick. Approved by ecclesiastical authority, the Institute is now widely spread in Italy, America, and Asia with 75 houses and over 2,000 religious.

Bibl.: L. Sanguinetti, Compendio della vita del b. Anton Maria Gianelli, Isola Liri 1924, p. 38 ff.