The Congregation of the Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception is an American Community founded in New Britain, Connecticut in 1904 by the Right Reverend Lucian Bojnowski to honor the Immaculate Conception and to help the less fortunate through an intrinsically Marian apostolate.  Witnessing on all sides the sad plight of the orphaned and wishing to improve their condition, eight devout young ladies of the Society of the Children of Mary responded to the urgent call of their pastor and formed the nucleus of the present community.  Generosity and sacrifice, simplicity and humility became the hallmark of their spirit - a spirit nurtured by imitating the virtues of Mary.

From this nucleus the community grew and nurtured.  Its widening field of activity was looked upon as a sign of God’s blessing.  In 1929, the Most Reverend John J.Nilan, Bishop of Hartford, sought and procured from Rome, first the tentative and then the definitive approval of the Constitutions of the Institute, whereby it became a canonically erected religious congregation.  In 1939 the community received the Degree of Praise from Rome.  From a Diocesan Institute it became a Pontifical religious body with the official title, Congregation of the Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception.

Following the directives of Vatican II, the Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception have revised their Constitutions, “Magnify the Lord.”  The revised constitutions were approved by the Sacred Congregation for Religious, June 18, 1982.  A strongly Marian character and spirit is interwoven throughout the constitutions.