Founded in 1856 at Williamsburg, Long Island, New York at the request of Bishop Loughlin of Brooklyn, from the Philadelphia community; transferred to Flushing in 1860. The mother-house is now in Brentwood, New York. The congregation manages parochial and trade schools, academies, a college for women, hospitals and orphanages, all in the diocese of Brooklyn.
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