Founded by Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini, at Piacenza, Italy, 1888, to minister to the spiritual and temporal needs of Italian emigrants in America. Commended by Pope Leo XIII in 1888. Rules approved in 1908,1925. The congregation, governed by a superior-general at Rome, is dependent on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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