MINIME DI NOSTRA SIGNORA DEL SUFFRAGIO (Minims of Our Lady of Suffrage). - As early as 2 February 1859, Count Francesco Faà di Bruno (v.), then a simple layman and professor at the University of Turin, was devoting his considerable patrimony to a complex of charitable works on behalf of women. At first he entrusted them to pious young ladies; but, realizing that the work would not be stable, he went about forming candidates and was able to see the first vestitions in 1881 (Turin).

The decree of praise is dated 30 April 1940, with the temporary approval of the Constitutions, which were then definitively approved on 28 June 1948.

The special purpose of the Institute is to pray for the souls in purgatory, to educate young women in asylums, schools, boarding houses and colleges, and to collaborate in catechesis, in oratories and other parish works. In 1949 the sisters numbered 213, the novices 19, distributed among 25 houses.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Arch. S. Congr. dei Rel., T. 84.

Agostino Pugliese

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