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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mary Ward |
 | | To this law the difficulties of Mary Ward were mainly due, when on the propagation of her institute in Flanders, Bavaria, Austria, and Italy, she applied to the Holy See for formal approbation. |
 | | Ferdinand II had welcomed the congregation to their dominions, and together with such men as Cardinal Federigo Borromeo, Fra Domenico de Gesù, and Father Mutio Vitelleschi, General of the Society of Jesus, held the foundress in singular veneration. |
 | | The second institute was at length approved as to its rule by Clement XI in 1703, and as an institute by Pius IX in 1877. |
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