Collection box of the Canisius Congregation study fund. ‘I have resolved to save at least one guilder a year for the ...’. c. 1930. The Canisius Congregation was founded in 1871 in Maastricht by and for the benefit of Catholic workers. The study fund enabled novices preparing for missionary work as priests to build up savings: 2 cents a week, 10 cents a month, 25 cents a quarter or one guilder a year.