Abbreviation | FHM |
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Formation | 1916citation needed] | [
Founders | Mary Theodore Williams |
Founded at | Savannah, Georgia |
Headquarters | Manhattan |
Parent organization | Catholic Church |
The Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary are a historically Black Catholic congregation of nuns co-founded by Mary Theodore Williams and Ignatius Lissner in 1916. They follow the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis. Their primary mission has always been education, primarily of children of the African-American community.