Our religious community was founded in 1948 by the Rev. John King Mussio in Steubenville, Ohio when he invited Mother Joan, Mother Canisius, and Sister Maria to leave the Ursuline community and found a teaching order for his diocese.
As a religious community we are one in mind and heart. We wear our original habit, unchanged, and we live a traditional religious life. This includes the daily recitation of the whole Rosary, and the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary (privately), morning, noon, and night prayers in common, and meditation. Our apostolate is the education of children and the care of the elderly.
Our aim is to train sisters and send them to many parts of the country to uphold the tradition of Catholic Education by implanting the true, unaltered Catholic Faith in the young, and instilling a profound love of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and a tender love of the glorious Mother of God, especially by way of Her Rosary. The Roman Catholic Church badly needs this new "Counter-Reformation".
We hope in the near future to also begin training girls in nursing so as to help staff a retirement home planned for our property in Louisiana.
Our community survived the changes in religious life of the 60's because of our small number and also because of the understanding and protection of our founding bishop, nevertheless we still had to leave our property in Ohio and move the community to Louisiana after Bishop Mussio died in 1985
There our foundresses are all buried and there we hope to build our nursing home for elderly traditonal Catholics, religious, and priests.
