Daughters of Divine Charity

Daughters of Divine Charity
Daughters of Divine Charity
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    Founded at Vienna, 21 November, 1868, by Franziska Lechner (d. 1894) on the Rule of St. Augustine, and approved by the Holy See in 1884 and definitively confirmed 22 July, 1891. The purpose of the congregation is to furnish girls without positions, shelter, care and the means of obtaining a position, without compensation, likewise to care for servants no longer able to work. The sisters are also engaged in schools, orphan asylums, and kindergartens. The motherhouse and novitiate are at Vienna; the congregation has 36 filial houses, 766 sisters, and 59 postulants.
    F.M. RUDGE

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. . 1910.


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