Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate

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PARISH VISITORS OF MARY IMMACULATE

(PVMI; Official Catholic Directory #3160); a contemplative missionary congregation of women, founded, 1920, in New York City by Mother Mary Teresa Tallon with the approval of Archbishop (later Cardinal) Patrick Hayes. The congregation was canonically erected on April 25, 1927. At a time when Christian family life was rapidly declining, the foundress conceived the idea of sisters engaging in family visitation to restore the spirit of the Holy Family to the home. The sisters engage in family visitations, counseling, missionary outreach and religious education, focusing on person-to-person evangelization. The motherhouse is at Monroe, N.Y.

[m. l. cooney]