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Societas Filiarum Caritatis a S. Vincentio de Paulo / The Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul 

The sisterhood, established by St Vincent de Paul (1581‒1660) and St Louise de Marillac (1591‒1660), grew out of fraternities of mercy founded by missionaries that would be actively joined by wealthy women who would collect donations for the poor.

The Queen of Poland, Marie Louise Gonzaga, invited the Daughters of Charity to Warsaw in 1652. In 1744, the Bishop of Smolensk, Bogusław Gosiewski granted an endowment for a hospital in Vilnius and assigned his palace on Savičiaus street for that purpose. The bishop chose Lazarist priests as the executors of this endowment, and thanks to their efforts the first Daughters of Charity arrived in Vilnius from Poland in 1745. Soon the palace was converted into a religious house and a hospital. In Vilnius, like elsewhere, the main activity of the Daughters of Charity was serving the sick and the poor. Built in 1791, the Orphanage of the Infant Jesus soon became the main place where parents might, for one reason or another, leave their children. To prepare the children for an uneasy life outside the walls of the orphanage, they were taught to read and write and to practice a craft. After the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the tsarist administration supported the Daughters of Charity and ensured additional income for their hospitals. In 1809, the sisters were employed in the newly established general hospital at the Church of Saints Philip and James in Lukiškės (in the premises taken over from the Dominican monastery). The Daughters of Charity received a fatal blow after the uprising of 1863‒1864: in 1864, they were evicted from the convent at the Orphanage of the Infant Jesus, and in 1867, the house on Savičiaus street was closed. In 1921, the Daughters resumed their work at the Orphanage of the Infant Jesus. During World War II, the sisters left for Poland and never renewed their work in Vilnius.