Enciclopedia Cattolica

SORELLE MINIME DELLA CARITÀ DI MARIA ADDOLORATA (CAMPOSTRINI)

Minim Sisters of Charity of Mary, Sorrowful (Campostrini)

Volume XI · p. 590 · 1953

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

MINIM SISTERS OF THE CHARITY OF MARY, SORROWFUL (Campostrini). — Founded in Verona in 1817 through the efforts of the Veronese noblewoman Teodora Campostrini.

Article illustration
(from Madre Savina Petrilli, Roma 1818, p. 18)
Sisters of the Poor of St Catherine of Siena — The Mother House of the Institute of St Catherine — Siena

MINIM SISTERS OF THE CHARITY OF MARY, SORROWFUL — SORRENTO

Papal approval in 1833; temporary approval of the Constitutions in 1940. Purpose: Christian instruction and education of young women. The Generalate is in Verona. The sisters number 131 in 13 houses.

Bibl.: Arch. of the S. Congr. of Religious, V. 2. Agostino Pugliese