Chapter 130 The Origin of the Ten Eternal Respect Society

In addition, the parlor we have just pointed out, which resembles a tomb, is only an isolated case, and it is not so severe in other monasteries.Especially in the Temple Street, and, indeed, in that convent belonging to another order, the dark shuttered windows were replaced by maroon drapes, and the drawing-room was also a small hall with a parquet floor, with There were elegant white gauze curtains, various glass frames on the walls, a portrait of a Benedictine nun showing her face, several oil paintings of flowers, and even a Turk's head. It was in the garden of the monastery on the Rue du Temple that the Indian chestnut tree, known as the most beautiful and largest in all of France, and hailed by the good people of the eighteenth century as "the father of all chestnut trees in the kingdom," was planted.

We said that this monastery on Temple Street belonged to the Perennial-Benedictine nuns, and the Benedictine nuns there were quite different from the Benedictine nuns who belonged to the Cistercian.The history of the Perpetual Honor Society is not very long, not more than two hundred years.In 1649, in two chapels in Paris, St. Sulpice and St. John of Gréveau, the Eucharist was desecrated twice, within a few days of each other, a rare crime of sacrilege. Afterwards, everyone in the city was shocked.The archdeacon and abbot of Saint-Germain de Bray sent orders to all his clergy for a solemn procession, which was presided over by the papal legate.But two noble ladies, Lady Gul'dan (the Marchioness of Booker) and Countess Shadovian, felt that was not enough atonement.Although the crime committed against the "extremely high host on the altar" happened by chance, it seemed to the two saints that it should not be done so hastily, and they believed that it could only be done in a certain place. The "eternal salute" in the nunnery can be redeemed.The two of them, one in 1652 and the other in 1653, donated a large sum of money for this pious wish to a Benevolent woman named Catherine de Bar, also known as the Mother of the Blessed Sacrament. The Benedictine nuns asked her to found a monastery for the department of Saint-Benoit.Mr. Metz, the dean of the Saint-Germain Seminary, first approved the establishment of the monastery by Sister Catherine de Bar, "it was agreed that the woman who applied for admission must pay an annual hospital fee of three hundred livres, which is a principal of six thousand livres, otherwise she would not be allowed to go to the hospital. Admittance.” Following the abbot of Saint-Germain, the king issued a letter of permission, and by 1654, the license of the abbey and the letter of permission of the king had been approved by the financial department and the court.

This is the origin and legal basis for the founding of the Church of the Perpetual Eucharist in Paris by the Benedictine nuns.Their first convent was "rebuilt" in Casset Street with money from Mrs. Booker and Mrs. Chatovian. So we know that that order must not be confused with the Benedictine nuns of Cidow.It was attached to the abbot of Saint-Germain de Bré, just as the nuns of the Sacred Heart were to the Superiors of the Jesuits, and the Mothers of the Order of Mercy to the Superiors of the Lazarus. It's also quite another thing with Sister Bernard of Little Piquebus, whose internals we've already talked about.Pope Alexander VII issued a decree in 1657, allowing the Bernard nuns of Piccubus the Petite to practice perpetual rituals like the Benedictine nuns of the Eucharistic Congregation.But the two Orders do not thereby belong to the same order.