The Congregation

¡FOUNDED! Little by little the details were being finalized. They had not finished in finding a house that responds to the needs of the work and unites the desired characteristics of Vicenta Maria. They directed all the efforts towards the modification of the apartment that they had at Number 8 S. Miguel Street and rented the adjacent apartment.

The crib was simple. Born an Institute in the smallness that is a sign of the things of God… born in the bossom of the Church that welcomes and embraces the Institute in the company of  His Excellency Ciriaco Maria Sancha, Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo, with a residence in Madrid.

The Feast chosen to start wearing the habit and more so to inaugurate officially the Institute was on the 11th of June 1876. Vicenta Maria was then 29 years of age.

Vicenta Maria´s dream, her project of life and efforts which were made reality and became a living presence in the Congregation of the Religious of Mary Immaculate are to be found in these pages.