A province of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, established in England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, and India, with mother-house at Annecy, France. In England and Scotland (Blairs College, Aberdeen) they devote themselves entirely to teaching. Iin India (Diocese of Vizagapatam), where they first went in 1849, the work is general as in France. The congregation is in charge of elementary, day and boarding schools, a college, orphanages, workhouses, organizations for unemployed girls, hospitals, and dispensaries.