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Loreto Sisters
The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Abbreviation
I.B.V.M.
Formation
27 September 1609; 414 years ago (1609-09-27)
Type
Catholic religious order
Headquarters
Casa Generalizia Di Loreto
Location
Via Massaua 3, Rome, Italy
Superior General
Carmel Swords, I.B.V.M
Key people
The Venerable Mary Ward, Frances Mary Teresa Ball
Parent organization
Roman Catholic Church
Staff
703
Website
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose members are commonly known as the Loreto Sisters, is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women dedicated to education founded in Saint-Omer by an Englishwoman, Mary Ward, in 1609. The congregation takes its name from the Marian shrine at Loreto in Italy where Ward used to pray. Ward was declared Venerable by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 December 2009.[1] The Loreto Sisters use the initials I.B.V.M. after their names.
Although education was its primary work, today the congregation is engaged in a wide variety of ministries: literacy programmes, spiritual direction, counselling, managing shelters for homeless women as well as several aspects of the movement for greater justice and peace in the world. The Loreto Sisters operate some 150 schools worldwide, educating over 70,000 pupils.
^"Roberts, Tom. "Mary Ward Named 'Venerable'", National Catholic Reporter, 21 December 2009". Archived from the original on 25 July 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
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