CHARITY of our Lady

CHARITY of our Lady, in church-history, a religious order in France, which, though charity was the principal motive of their union, grew in length of time so disorderly and irregular, that their order dwindled, and at last became extinct.

There is still at Paris a religious order of women, called "Nuns hospitalers of the charity of our lady." The religious of this hospital are by vow obliged to administer to the necessities of the poor and the sick, but those only women.