In 1963 the Congregation numbered 483 professed Sisters, 40 novices, and 9 postulants. The Southern Province established a program for postulants and a program for professed seminarians. Resident monks, novices and postulants include a wide range of nationalities. As of 2002 the community numbered 28 professed nuns and two postulants. Sisters, 58; novices, 16; postulants, 21. Sisters, 299; novices, 29; postulants, 11; hospitals, 12. Sisters, 163; novices, 38; postulants, 26; hospitals, 10; patients, 5320, colleges, 2. Sisters, 47; novices, 20; postulants, 17; schools, 6; homes, 2; asylum, 1. The postulants were admitted early and made both secular and ecclesiastical studies. On February 27, 1536 Zaccaria conferred the habit on six postulants of the Angelic Sisters. Bailly were returning from France with three French postulants after a fundraising trip. In the Philippines there are enough postulants to have a designated house, situated in Valenzuela. From there they began building schools and accepting postulants. One sister and three postulants were received the following year. By May 1500 she had received 11 postulants, the nucleus of the new Order.