Mitford family Vanessa, Atalanta, and Jessica. A portion of Jessica Mitford's writing is used as a spoken-word introduction to the song "Last Act of Defiance", about the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, on thrash metal band Exodus's 1989 album "Fabulous Disaster". Mitford sisters by William Acton Mitford family The Mitford family is a gentry (minor aristocratic) English family whose main family line had seats at Mitford, Northumberland. Several heads of the family served as High Sheriff of Northumberland. A junior line, with seats at Newton Park, Northumberland, and Exbury House, Hampshire, descends via the historian William Mitford (1744–1827) and were twice elevated
Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche The Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche (French: "Sœurs de la Sainte-Famille de Villefranche"; Latin: "Congregatio Sororum a Sacra Familia"; abbreviation: "S.F.") is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and follow the evangelical way of life in common. Members dedicated themselves to instruction and education of youth, especially the poor. This religious institute was founded in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, France, in 1816, by st. Émilie de Rodat, and received pontifical status in 1869. The sisters have houses in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Philippines.