FIGLIE DI NOSTRA SIGNORA AL MONTE CALVARIO (Rome). - The Institute arose in 1641 through the work of Virginia Centurione Bracelli, and underwent many vicissitudes until it attained its present stability through the generosity of the Genoese patrician Emanuele Brignola.
On 23 May 1827 Leo XII summoned some sisters to Rome to care for those housed in the Hospice of S. Maria degli Angeli alle Terme. On 10 June 1833 Gregory XVI assigned them the monastery and church of S. Norberto, and on 8 July 1842 approved their rule. On 2 June 1922 the constitutions conformed to the Code were approved, and on 15 Sept. 1948 a new text drafted in accordance with new requirements was definitively approved.
The special purpose of the Institute is teaching and education; the sisters also care for abandoned young people, the elderly, and the sick in hospitals, preventoria, etc. In 1949 the Institute had 74 houses and 590 sisters.