Pennsylvania, the place from which missions and convents developed rapidly over the next 50 years. In 1878, the first attempts were made to join the independent houses into a congregation. This congregation consisted of ten monasteries in seven states.
Today there are twenty-two monasteries in fifteen states and Mexico.
The Constitutions, called Call to Life , were first published in 1974. After several revisions, they were given formal approval by the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes on February 10, 1988.