The title Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo refers to several religious congregations for women in the Roman Catholic Church, sharing the same rule and tradition.
In 1652, they adopted constitutions drawn up by Epiphane Louys, Abbot of Estivals and Vicar General of the reformed Premonstratensians, and placed themselves under the patronage of Saint Charles Borromeo.
During the French Revolutionary period the members, although dispersed and deprived of their religious habit, continued their work so heroically as to win the encomiums of their persecutors.
[1] A house of this congregation founded at Alexandria in 1884 was, in 1894, made a provincial mother-house and a novitiate for the (Ottoman) Orient, with the direction of schools, an asylum for the aged, and a hospice for German pilgrims.
[1] The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo first came from France to Bohemia in 1837 at the invitation of Alois Josef, Freiherr von Schrenk, Prince-Bishop of Prague.