Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary is a community of vowed religious women of pontifical right founded in Manila, Philippines in 1684 by Mother Ignacia del Espíritu Santo a Filipina. The post-nominal initials of a member of the Congregation are "R.V.M." The Congregation administers schools in the Philippines and in the states of California and Hawaii in the United States.