FRATELLI OSPITALIERI FIGLI DELLA IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE (CONCEZIONISTI). - They arose in Rome from Father Luigi M. Monti in 1857, for the care of the sick and the education of orphaned and abandoned youth. Pius IX definitively approved them in 1855. The constitutions, drafted by the founder, received the definitive sanction of the Holy See on 5 February 1906.

The Fathers wear a blue habit gathered at the waist by a white sash. The institute is lay, and only as many of its members ascend to the priesthood as are necessary for spiritual care; all, however, have equal rights and duties.

Expelled in 1889 from the Hospital of S. Spirito, they devoted themselves to the education of orphans, and already in 1886 Father Monti had opened the first orphanage in Saronno.

Today the Congregation counts numerous hospitaller and educational works both in Italy and in Argentina, with 24 houses and about 200 religious.

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BIBL.: A. Angelini, Biografie edificanti dei F. Stedulieri della J. C., Rome 1883; S. Vismara, Fr. Bonifacio Paoletic dei Religioni Concessionisti: appunti biografici, Milan 1922; E. Spreafico, P. Luigi M. Monti, 2nd ed., Rome 1940; Il terzo di Dio p. Luigi M. Monti nella sua vita e nelle sue opere, 2 vols., Saronno 1947.

Erasmo Perniola

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Hospitaller Brothers, Sons of the Immaculate Conception

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