The most purely religious institute appears to have been, according to the able Gaillard, that of the Bourgognes[415] in imitation of the charity of St. Marthe in her house in Bethany. An order, that of the _chanoines réguliers du Saint Esprit_, was founded, or at least encouraged by Guy of Montpellier about the end of the twelfth century for the express purpose of caring for poor and abandoned children. The same institution is also said to have had for its founder, Olivier de la Crau in 1010. In any case it was not until 1188, eight years after the foundation of the order ascribed to Guy of Montpellier, that the hospital of Marseilles was established. The historians of Languedoc[416] do not justify the assumption that this same Guy was the son of the Count of Montpellier, and all that we know is that “Brother Guy” or “Master Guy,” as he was differently called,[417] apparently founded an asylum for sick men and abandoned children. The success of this order was immediate. In 1197, Bernard de Montlaur and his wife left a substantial donation to the Hospital of Saint Esprit at Montpellier, and to Guy, its founder.[418] Public approval was followed by official approval, for the Senate of Marseilles, or the Honourable Council, as it was called, held its meetings in the hospital founded there by Guy in 1188 and began its deliberations always with a discussion about the condition of the poor.[419] Following the efforts of Guy of Montpellier, at Montpellier and at Marseilles, the movement, under the auspices of the _hospitaliers_ of Saint Esprit, spread so rapidly that before the end of the century there were institutions at Rome,[420] one at Bergliac, and one at Troyes, and others in different places.[421] The order founded by Guy was given the approval of the Holy See, and its founder was called to Rome by Innocent III. and placed in charge of the house of Santa Maria in Sassia, where the Pope wished the same spirit that had marked Guy’s own institution at Montpellier. Guy died in Rome, 1208. [Illustration: FILLING CHRISTMAS BASKETS FOR POOR CHILDREN—MOTHERS’ HELPING HAND CLUB, NEW YORK CITY] The house of Santa Maria in Sassia to which Guy was called was attached to the church of that name which had been founded by Gna, king of the later Saxons, in 715. It had undergone many disastrous changes, but in 1198 Innocent III., at his own expense, had it renovated and repaired for the sick and poor of Rome. In 1204, moved by the frequency with which the fishermen of the Tiber found in their nets the bodies of children that had been thrown into the river, the Pope dedicated part of the hospital to the care of abandoned children, and it was to this institution that Guy of Montpellier was called. The humane movement spread rapidly, generally under at least the nominal guidance of the Order of Saint Esprit. Many institutions, however, were founded in the name of Saint Esprit where little attention was paid to children.