!!!Serviten

Servites (OSM = Ordo Servorum Mariae), order of the servants of St. 
Mary, founded in Florence in 1233. Order of mendicant friars devoted 
to spiritual ministrations and mission work. The small Second Order 
for nuns was founded in Todi (Italy) around 1280, the Third Order 
(Regulated Servites-Tertiaries) was founded in Florence in 1304. In 
Austria, the Servites spread from Innsbruck where Anna Katharina, the 
widow of Archduke Ferdinand II, had founded a Servite convent in 
1612 and a Servite monastery in 1614. The Second Order was dissolved 
in Austria in 1783. Servite establishments still exist in Innsbruck 
(provincialate), Maria Waldrast near Matrei am Brenner and Volders 
(Tyrol), Maria Luggau (Carinthia), in the 9%%sup th/%  district of 
Vienna, and in Gutenstein (Lower Austria).


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