MAESTRE PIE DELL'ADDOLORATA
The Institute originated in 1818 at Coriano, in the diocese of Rimini, where the noblewoman Elisabetta Renzi gathered several nuns expelled from suppressed convents and employed them in teaching. Twelve years later, the work was approved by the diocesan ordinary and canonically erected on 22 August 1839. The decree of praise was issued on 25 March 1902, and the Institute received formal approval on 8 December 1919.
The Institute had no vows, and its constitutions were extremely simple. However, as early as 1896, the desire began to emerge to transform the pious association into a true religious Institute with public vows, albeit simple ones. After various vicissitudes, on 25 October 1929 it was indeed transformed into a religious Institute, and on 26 June 1930 the faculty to emit perpetual vows was granted. The constitutions, harmonized with the Code, were temporarily approved on 5 July 1935 and definitively on 14 December 1942.
The special purpose of the Institute is the instruction and moral, religious, and civic education of young girls, through schools, workshops, recreation centers, and the work of protecting young women and assisting women’s associations of Catholic Action. In 1948, the sisters numbered over 492, distributed across 56 houses.
MAESTRE PIE FIGLIE DI MARIA S.ma
On the eve of Corpus Christi in 1829 (19 June), Caterina Molinari (later Sister Maria Vittoria Crocifissa), together with three other companions, gathered in the ancient Dominican convent of Sestri Levante and founded the Institute of the M. P. della Presentazione di Maria S.ma. Nine years later, the diocesan ordinary approved its constitutions.
The sisters engage in teaching young girls. Initially, they emitted only annual vows, but in the new constitutions the vows have become perpetual.
In 1948, the sisters numbered 250, distributed across 20 houses.