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for it a solemn Eucharistic triduum was held in was added in August, 1909, to the Sisters' estab- the mother-house. The solden jubilee of the lishment at Biala, Qalicia. where they conduct a order was celebrated in November, 1918. The secondary and primary school where German and cardinal protector of the order is Cardinal Januariua Polish are taught, a trainine school for female Granito Pignatelli de Belmonte, who succeeded teachers, industrial school, kindergarten at Wolke^- Cardinal'Serafino Vanutelli in this office upon the dorf, enlarged and dedicated in 1909, was ^iven latter's death in 1915. The apostolic visitation of to the Sisters and consecrated in 1914. The culinary the congregation was begun in August, 1921, by department at the house of correction and agn- Mgr. Frans Hlawati, replacing Carcunal Friedrich cultural institute at Komeuburg, Lower Austria, Gustav Piffl. In October, 1S§0, the congregation was placed in charge of three Sisters of Divine was divided into provinces. The then existing Chanty in March, 1910. A new chapel and addi- Austrian province was divided and from it four tion to the home for aged and infirm Sisters and provinces were erected, one in each of the following invalided servants at Breitenfurt was built in May, countries: Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Hungary 1910, and dedicated 3 November, 1911. The Marian and Poland. Permission was received for the erec- Conare^tion for young women was established tion of an American province in January, 1921. at the Empress Elizabeth Home for Girls and 17

The first foundation in America was made in new members received 8 December, 1910. A poor- 1913, when Sister Valeria Morvay, general of the house with 12 inmates at Lichtenegg, Lower Aus- order, and Sister Kotska Bauer established in New tria, was taken over by the Sisters 30 Januaiy, Yoric St. Maiy's Home for servants out of em- 1911. The addition to the kindergarten at Hoch- plosrment, positions being secured for them. The stetten was dedicated in September, 1911. An Sisters also gave religious instruction at various institute and home for servants erected at Budapest places. There was a wide field for activity, and by the League of Catholic Housewives was opened on several occasions Sisters were called from the by the Sisters, 9 September, 1911, the Sisters giving branch houses in Hungary to the American foun- up their work there in June, 1912. In September, dation. After the foundation was well established 1911, a school for girls was opened at Marczali, Sister Valeria Morvay returned to Himgaiy, and Sis- Hungary. The Sisters at Unter-Stinkenbrunn took ter Kotska Bauer was made superior of the North up the work of caring for the sick in their homes American houses. Since then she has been made in October, 1911. A villa and extensive woodlands provincial superior of the American province of were purchased 5 October, 1911, at Pale near the congregation. At the present time there are Serajevo, where a school was built and dedicated seven foundations in the Umted States : St. Joseph's 5 August, ^913. The new kindergarten and work Hill^ Arrocher, Staten Island, provincial house, school at Gerasford was dedicated in March, 1912. novitiate, day and boarding scnool; St. Mary's The charter for the women's training school at Home, New York City, for servants seeking em- Serajevo as received in March, 1912. The new

flosmient: Convent of Our Ladv of Hungary, foundation of St. Cecilia's Home for children at Ladislaus, New Brunswick, N. J., school, kinder- June, 1913; the principal work there is the kinder- mcten, and day nursery; St. Stephen's Convent, garten. The new country house at Wola-Fustowska Trenton, N. J., school; St. Stephen's Hungarian near Cracow, was blessed 12 July, 1913. A rural Convent, Bridgeport, Conn., kindergarten and housekeeping school at Maria Frost, necur Graz, classes for religious instruction; South Bethlehem, was opened in October, 1913. A house in Viexma near Philadelphia, Penn., school and kindergarten, was purchased in January, 1914, for the Marian Permission to establish a novitiate in North Institute, serving also as a home for old ladies America was granted in July, 1913. In June, 1920, and civil service employees, and the institute was a foundation was made in South America at Serro- further enlarged in October, 1916, by the purchase Azul, Diocese of Uruguayana, Brazil, with a day of another house in Vienna. A school and board- school, boarding school, and kindergarten. ing house was opened at Swaffham, Diocese of Many new foundations have been made in Northampton, England, in June, 1914, and the Europe in the last thirteen years. A new Marian chapel was opened 30 October, 1920. A home for Institute was opened in Trappan in April, 1909, children of reservists at Serajevo was taken over the old institute being bought by the city authori- by the Sisters in September, 1915. The children's ties for a charitable institution. The new institute home at Hochwolkersdorf, Lower Austria, was cares for poor servants and is also a home for managed by the Sisters from June, 1918, to June, ladies; the Church of the Sacred Heart, erected in 1919. The Marian Home for homeless girls, estab- connection with it, was dedicated in June, 1910. lished by the Women's A^ociation of Graz was The home for children at Alt Dejvitz, near Prague, taken over by the Sisters from September, 1918, was taken over by the Sisters in April, 1909, and till July, 1920. In August. 1919, the Sisters took a Sunday school for girls was later established over the kindergarten founded by Baroness Mayer- there. The Sisters were obliged to give up the Melnhof at ScMos»-Weyer in St3rria, and later on establishment in September, 1921, when the pro- opened an industrial school. A branch was opened vostship was requisitioned by the Czech Govern- in September, 1919, at Koberwitz, Czechoslovakia, ment and taken from the bishop. During the where the Sisters nurse the sicl^ in their homes, period of its existence 699 children were cared for and they plan to open a kindergarten there. The in the home and 281 were taught in the Sunday children's home founded by the Children's Pro- sehool. A home for children was erected at tective and Aid Association, Vienna, was taken Hochstrass-Stassing in 1908 and dedicated 25 May, over by the Sisters in October, 1919, with 40 boys. 1909; 40 foundlings are educated there. The train- The Sisters extended their sphere of activity in ing school for women of the Marian Institute at November, 1919, to Pabjanice, Russian Poland, Cracow was granted its charter in June, 1909. The where they established a school for girls, a kinder- ^ondary and boarding school at Szepesszombat, garten, and religious instruction in various schools. Hungary, was taken over by the Sisters in August. Permission was received in March, IftZO, to open 1909, and opened the following October, the chapel a secondary school at the Convent of Maria being dedicated in September, 1910 : it is the only Loretto at St. Andra in Carinthia. The boarding Catholic school in the vicinity. A new building school of St. Maria in Weltrus, near Prague, was
 * erth-Amboy, N. J., school; Convent of St. Aspersdorf, near Oberhollabruzm, was blessed 15