Noble Virgins Of Jesus
The Society of the Noble Virgins of Jesus is a society of apostolic life of pontifical right founded in 1608. Its members are Aristocracy (class), aristocratic women who dedicate themselves to a shared life in community and to female education. Description The Society was founded by three sisters, Cinzia, Gridonia and Olimpia Gonzaga,Arrivabene, Carlo. "Italy under Victor Emmanuel: A Personal Narrative", Volume 1, Hurst and Blackett, 1862, pp. 146-148. They were the daughters of Elena Aliprandi and Aloysius' younger brother Rodolfo, thus the saint's nieces. Their father, Rodolfo, had been killed in 1593, when they were still infants, but the daughters wished to make reparations for his death in battle. It developed out of an inspiration of Father Vergil Cepari, Society of Jesus, S.J. (1563–1631), who had been their father's confessor as well as having been a classmate of their sainted uncle. He had felt the need for the education of the young children of that city. The school f ...
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