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Mary Ward Founds the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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In 1609, the English recusant Mary Ward founded a religious institute for women modeled on the Jesuits, with no enclosure, no choir obligation, and a mission to educate girls — a vision so radical that the Vatican suppressed it in her lifetime, only to see it vindicated centuries later.

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