Sisters of St. John the Baptist

The Sisters of St. John the Baptist (Baptistines) are a Roman Catholic female religious institute, founded in Angri, Italy in 1878, by Alfonso Maria Fusco.

[1] Shortly before he was ordained in 1863, Alfonso Maria Fusco dreamt that he was called to found an orphanage and a new religious community of women to staff it.

He was assigned to Angri, where the parish church was dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.

Due to a declining enrollment, and growing maintenance expenses of an aging facility the Academy closed in June 2018.

[3] The sisters came to Canada in 1962 and operate Infant Jesus Daycare centres in Hamilton and Waterdown.