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We are the Daughters of the Immaculata, a recently founded community of Catholic Sisters who have St. Maximilian Kolbe as our patron and spiritual father. We were founded as an Association of the Christian Faithful established under Canon 215 of the Code of Canon Law to live, in today’s challenging and difficult times, the charism of St. Maximilian: joyful acceptance of God's Will; carrying of the Cross; imitation of Our Lady; generous self-surrender; love of our neighbor, even unto death.

We are based at the National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe (“Marytown”) in Libertyville, IL. The Shrine was founded and is serviced by the Conventual Franciscan Friars with whom we work to spread the ideals of Marian Consecration: bringing all souls to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the help of His Mother. We assist in many aspects of the Shrine (media, music, housekeeping, e.g.) and perhaps give our greatest witness to a hungering modern Church by our presence attired in traditonal dress.

We live and pray in community endeavoring to live Religious Life and its three vows authentically and radically as was lived by generations of holy and self-sacrificing Sisters for generations in the Church.