Excerpt from Constitutions and Rules of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary I. The object for which God in His goodness has designed to call and bring together the Sisters of Charity of the B. V. M. Is to honor the Holy Family, namely, Jesus, Mary and Jo seph. To this end they will consecrate all their labors, that they may imitate more and more the private life of the Holy Family. Yet it belongs to their vocation to live in any part of the world where there is hope of promoting the glory of God and the salvation of souls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.