Benedictine Nuns Of Perpetual Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament
Benedictine Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is an female Enclosed religious orders, enclosed Religious order (Catholic), Catholic order founded in Paris, Paris, France in 1653 by Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament. Each monastery of the order is autonomous. Congregational monasteries are located in France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Mexico, Poland, Germany, Uganda, Italy and Haiti. According to a 2011 statistic, overall 553 nuns were members of the order at the time.''Annuario Pontificio'', Città del Vaticano 2011, p. 1489. History The founder of the order, Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament, was the superior of the Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Annonciades under the name of Sister Catherine of the Saint-John the Evangelist. Due to wars, the nuns had to leave their monastery. The exile roam lasted about two and a half years, and caused illness, leaving Catherine with only five nuns. Finally, in May 1638, the sisters found shelter in ...
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Catholic Religious Order
In the Catholic Church, a religious order is a community of consecrated life with members that profess solemn vows. They are classed as a type of religious institute. Subcategories of religious orders are: * canons regular (canons and canonesses regular who recite the Divine Office and serve a church and perhaps a parish); * monastics (monks or nuns living and working in a monastery and reciting the Divine Office); * mendicants (friars or religious sisters who live from alms, recite the Divine Office, and, in the case of the men, participate in apostolic activities); and * clerics regular (priests who take religious vows and have a very active apostolic life). Original Catholic religious orders of the Middle Ages include the Order of Saint Benedict. In particular the earliest orders include the English Benedictine Congregation (1216) and Benedictine communities connected to Cluny Abbey, the Benedictine reform movement of Cistercians, and the Norbertine Order of Premonstrate ...
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