DAUGHTERS OF SAN FRANCESCO D’ASSISI (Strigonis). — The Institute had its beginnings in 1894 through the work of Anna Mutter, who, together with several companions, had gone from Switzerland to Budapest to care for the sick in their homes.
Although they wore a religious habit and were well regarded by the ecclesiastical authorities, it was only in 1904, when their number had increased considerably, that the archbishop of Strigonis canonically erected the Institute and gave them a text of constitutions drawn up by the Jesuit Fr. Ludovico Tomcsanyi. The decree of praise was granted on 18 January 1935, and on the same date the constitutions were provisionally approved.
The Institute has a single class of religious who care for the sick both in hospitals and in their homes, under the patronage of s. Francesco d’Assisi. In 1947 the Institute had 32 houses, with 472 professed sisters.