FIGLIE DI MARIA NOSTRA SIGNORA. — Institute founded in New Britain (United States) by the Polish priest Luciano Bojanowski, for the direction of an orphanage in the form of a pious association. In 1929 it assumed 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
FIGLIE DI MARIA S.ma ADDOLORATA E DI SAN FILIPPO NERI (Seville). — In 1859 the priest Francesco Garcia Tejero, of the Oratory of S. Filippo Neri, founded this Congregation of sisters in Seville; it obtained the decree of praise in 1874 and definitive approval in 1909. The rule was conformed to the Code in 1943.
The Congregation, which is not very extensive, seeks, in accordance with the spirit of S. Filippo Neri, to educate and redeem fallen or endangered young women and to provide Christian education to female youth in reformatories and colleges. In 1948 it consisted of 8 houses and 90 sisters.
Agostino Pugliese
FIGLIE DI MARIA S.ma DELL'ORTO. — Also called Gianelline. Institute founded at Chiavari by S. Antonio M. Gianelli in 1829 for the education and instruction of youth in nursery schools and schools of every level, and for the care of the sick. Approved by the ecclesiastical authority, the Institute is now widespread in Italy, America, and Asia, with 75 houses and more than 2,000 religious.
FIGLIE DI MARIA ■ SCOLOPIE FIGLIE DI MARIA (Barcelona). — As early as 1829 there existed in the dioceses of Gerona, Barcelona, and Vich the-
DAUGHTERS OF MARY OR SCOLOPIANS — DAUGHTERS OF OUR LADY OF THE SACRED HEART
Since 1829, the dioceses of Gerona, Barcelona, and Vich had included the Institute of the Daughters of Mary, who devoted themselves to the religious and civic education of girls according to the spirit of St. Joseph Calasanz. They were divided into teachers and working sisters. They were approved in 1860, and ten years later their constitutions were also provisionally approved. The specification “Scolopians” was subsequently added to the original title. The constitutions received definitive approval in 1887. In 1949 the Institute had 50 houses in which 726 sisters lived.