Translator:
Joseph Stefanelli, SM
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This historical snapshot traces the name "Daughters of Mary," Chaminade's system of government for the FMI, and the drafting of the Constitutions for the Marianist Sisters.
[Editor’s note: The material below, which appeared in French in a typed-manuscript format, was located in the former archives of the Society of Mary’s Province of Cincinnati, and it was translated in 2015 by Father Joseph Stefanelli, SM.]