Poor Clares of Eternal Adoration
The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration or Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Sacrament are a branch of the Poor Clares founded in 1854 .
history
Klara Bouilleveaux (1820–1871) founded a community in Paris in 1854 with the help of the Capuchin Father Bonaventura Heurault , which lived according to the Franciscan rule of third orders and practiced perpetual adoration . The convent was moved to Troyes in 1856 . From here, Mother Mary of the Cross, who was born Countess von Moravska, founded various new monasteries in Lamberg (1872), Vienna (1898), Prague and Kęty near Kraków .
In 1925 four sisters came to Bautzen and soon had so many visitors that an extension was necessary in the 1930s and 1950s. An outbuilding of the monastery has been used as a shelter for the homeless since the early 1990s.
Although originally founded as a third order congregation , the way of life of the sisters differs so little from that of the Poor Clares that the community received the Constitutions of the Poor Clares Urbanists by papal ordinance in 1911 and was thus incorporated into the second order of St. Francis . Since then the order has been called "Poor Clares of Eternal Adoration". This branch of the order had 350 members worldwide in the 1960s.
Branches
Today, in addition to the old foundations, there are also independent monasteries of this federation in Italy, India, Japan and North America.
- In Germany there is a monastery of this religious order in Bautzen in Saxony.
- In Austria there is the Adoration Monastery of the Poor Clares Vienna-Margareten , founded in 1898