Franciscan Sisters of Dillingen

The Congregation of Franciscan Sisters of Dillingen began in Dillingen, Bavaria in 1241 when "Count Hartmann IV of Dillingen and his son, Hartmann V, Bishop of Augsburg (1248-1286), donated to the Community of Ladies in Dillingen a house near the parish church and with it one lot of land, a cabbage patch and a meadow."

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