We are…
It all began with helping girls who were leaving the countryside to seek work in the city
We are a group of the Catholic Church that began thanks to Saint Vicenta María López y Vicuña, in Madrid, on June 11, 1876. It all began when Vicenta Maria’s uncles, D. Manuel Maria and Dña. María Eulalia Vicuña, recognized that the girls arriving in Madrid to work as maids needed assistance and support.
Vicenta María embraced her uncles’ concern and expanded it by assisting girls who were leaving the countryside to seek work in the city during the 19th century, a time when women had limited opportunities to secure their futures
It all began with helping girls who were leaving the countryside to seek work in the city
We are a group of the Catholic Church that began thanks to Saint Vicenta María López y Vicuña, in Madrid, on June 11, 1876. It all started because Vicenta’s uncles, D. Manuel María and Dña. María Eulalia Vicuña, recognized that the girls arriving in Madrid to work as maids needed assistance and support.
Vicenta María embraced her uncles’ concern and expanded it by assisting girls who were leaving the countryside to seek work in the city during the 19th century, a time when women had limited opportunities to secure their futures
Vicenta María López y Vicuña
“The girls have triumphed.”
Vicenta María was born in 1847 in Cascante, Navarra, into a wealthy family that enabled her to pursue an education at a time when women typically had limited access to it. At the age of 10, he moved to Madrid with his uncles Don Manuel María and Doña María Eulalia to continue his studies. Her uncles’ concern for young girls working as maids with limited opportunities felt like a message from God to her, inspiring her from a young age to help and dedicate her life to these young women.
His great dream was to address social injustice, to discern what God desired and to bring that vision to life.
Throughout her life, Vicenta opened houses in Zaragoza, Seville, Jerez, Barcelona and Burgos to continue her mission. Her death at the age of 43, on December 26, 1890 in Madrid, was not the end, but rather left her Congregation with a tremendous mission that now spans four continents