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RELIGIOUS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION

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(Belgium)

A congregation with simple vows, founded at Brussels, 1857, by Anna de Meeus,
daughter of Count Ferdinand de Meeus, for whose head a price was offered by the
insurgents during the Revolution of 1830. In 1843 Mlle de Meeus, then twenty
years of age, at the request of the rector visited the sacristy of the church
near their chateau and other churches. Impressed by the miserable state of the
vestments and all that pertained to the altar, she found the inspiration of her
life's work. Considering the poverty and neglect of Jesus Christ in the Blessed
Sacrament and desiring to make reparation to Him, she conceived the idea of an
association with the object of reviving faith in the Real Presence: by
adoration, night and day; persons undertaking to make monthly an hour of
adoration, and give yearly an offering for the benefit of poor churches; by
working to enhance the dignity of Divine worship by providing the necessaries
for the becoming celebration of the sacred mysteries. The Association of
Perpetual Adoration and Work for Poor Churches was organized in 1848 under the
direction of Rev. Jean Baptiste Boone, S.J., "the apostle of Brussels". The
necessity was soon felt that a religious body should be its centre and support,
one which would be wholly devoted to the propagation of the knowledge, love, and
adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.



As no community existed which made this work its special vocation, the project
of a new religious institute was formed and realized when Mlle de Meeus,
directed by Father Boone, founded the Religious of the Perpetual Adoration. The
constitutions were definitively approved by Pius IX (March, 1872). The religious
must not only be adorers but also missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament,
devoting themselves to all that, compatible with a life of retirement, can
further Its glory: religious instruction, preparation for first Communion,
retreats, etc. Their churches with the Blessed Sacrament exposed are always open
to the public. By their principal work, the association, they strive to increase
love for the Blessed Sacrament, by hours of adoration, grants of vestments to
poor churches, the Forty Hours Devotion, etc. The association spread rapidly
throughout the world (in America it is frequently called "Tabernacle Society").
In 1853 it was erected an archassociation with power to affiliate others. The
decree of Leo XIII transferring it to Rome (February, 1879) declares: "The
archassociation is one with the institute in name and in its object, it is
subordinate to the institute as to its head, and must be subordinate to it in
virtue of the constitutions approved by the Holy See". The archassociation was
raised to the rank of prima primaria, July, 1895. The institute has many houses
in Europe. In August, 1880, it was introduced into England by Cardinal Herbert
Vaughan, then Bishop of Manchester. Its first foundation in America was at
Washington, D. C., October, 1900.




ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Martin, C.L. (1911). Religious of Perpetual Adoration. In The
Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11697c.htm

MLA citation. Martin, C.L. "Religious of Perpetual Adoration." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11697c.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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