TEACHERS OF SAINT DOROTHY, DAUGHTERS OF THE SACRED HEARTS. - In 1815 at Villaperta di Calcinate (Bergamo) the parish priest Giovanni Battista Fenaroli initiated the Pia Opera of St. Dorothy, for the care and supervision of abandoned girls, which in 1820 received the approval of Pius VII.

The work spread also to the neighboring towns, and in 1830 it opened a house in Vicenza in the parish of St. Peter, where two years earlier a Pia Scuola had arisen for the same purpose. Both institutions had secular teachers, but were directed by the priest Giovanni Antonio Farina, who, due to difficulties that arose, merged the Pia Scuola with the Pia Opera of St. Dorothy and entrusted it to teachers of sure religious vocation. Thus in 1836 was born the Congregation of the M. di S. D. F. dei S. C., which in 1839 received from the Holy See the decree of praise. The new Institute, founded on solid foundations and wisely directed by Farina, consolidated itself, prospered excellently and soon spread to the neighboring towns and to other regions of Italy, so as to count today 135 houses with over 2000 religious, dedicated to the teaching of the children of the people and to the care of the sick.

Bibliography

BIBL.: S. Rumor, L'Istituto di S. Dorotea e il suo fondatore, Vicenza 1898.

Silverio Mattei

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Maestre di Santa Dorotea, Daughters of the Sacred Hearts

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