Sacraments
The Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament is a closed religious order that emerged as a reform from the Dominican order. The nuns , who are usually briefly called the Sacraments , devote themselves to eternal adoration . The foundation stone for the establishment of the congregation was laid in 1639 by Fr. Antoine Le Quieu , a Dominican .
history
After his ordination, Fr. Antoine Le Quieu OP was appointed novice master of the Dominican convent in Avignon and later prior of the convent in Paris . In 1639 Father Antoine founded a house in Marseille for women who wanted to dedicate their lives to the adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament.
Anne Negrell was appointed the first superior of the small convent . The canonical establishment of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament took place in 1659 by the Bishop of Marseille, Etienne Puget; the sisters were given a habit and lived under an order rule drawn up by Fr. Antoine . The community received papal approbation in 1680 from Pope Innocent XII . The Constitutions of the Congregation were confirmed in 1693, as a result the cloister was established, from then on the sisters were bound by the precise regulations of a papal cloister and made their solemn profession .
In 1725 the congregation established a convent in Bollène , France, in the Vaucluse department . The first founding of the Congregation in Marseille was abandoned during the French Revolution and the nuns were expelled. Thirteen sisters of the Convention of the Sacraments in Bollène suffered martyrdom on the guillotine between 6 and 26 July 1794 and are counted among the Blessed Martyrs of Orange . Pope Pius XI beatified the Martyrs of Orange in 1925 .
A survivor of the Bollène convent returned there and resumed religious life in 1802. In 1807 she founded a convent in Avignon with other sacraments who had survived the French Revolution; in the same year another house was founded in Aix-en-Provence . The convent in Paris was rebuilt in 1816.
In 1862 the Bollène convent sent three nuns and a lay sister to England, where they set up a convent in Cannington. Later, other religious houses followed in Oxford and Newport, in southern France, Normandy, Belgium and, in 1911, in Yonkers , which they concluded New York, where the sisters in 1922 also opened a girls' school in the 1980s and after Warwick (New York) relocated .
The convents of the Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament are all independent and subordinate to the bishop of the diocese in which the religious house is located.
Individual evidence
- ^ Steele, Francesca, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament , in: The Catholic Encyclopedia , Vol. 2, New York, Robert Appleton Company, 1907