DECREE OF PROMULGATION

To all the members of our Congregation I transmit these Constitutions, examined and approved by the Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes on the 29th of June, and, the required time having elapsed for them to become effective, I decree that our Constitutions begin to oblige from the 25th of January 1985, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

Rome, the 27th of September 1984 On the Solemnity of St. Vincent de Paul

[Signature] Richard McCullen, C.M.