Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre

The Tyburn Monasteries, officially Engl. Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre ( BSCM ), Latin Congregation Adoratricum Sanctissimi Cordis Jesus de Monte Martyrum - " Adoration Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre ", a community of nine currently Benediktinerinnenprioraten with the parent Tyburn Convent in London are. Its membership includes nearly 100 women religious.

History and offices

Founder of the community was the Frenchwoman Marie- Adèle Garnier ( religious name Marie de Saint -Pierre, Mary of St. Peter ). Born in 1838 in Burgundy, she grew up with four siblings and later worked for many years as an educator and teacher in an upper middle class house. Since her youth she felt for Christ and the Eucharist, the presence of his Sacred Heart drawn. Having initially started a hermit's life at the Sacré -Coeur on Montmartre in Paris, which was to be devoted as complete as possible of Perpetual Adoration, she founded in 1898 in Montmartre, the contemplative community of Adoration Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre, the put them under the rule of St. Benedict. In 1901 the young community fled because of the radical anti- clerical laws in France to England. In London, Mary of St. Peter was with her sisters settle in the immediate vicinity of the historic place of execution, Tyburn. There she died in 1924 in saintly reputation of God and love of neighbor.

The community had on hand and spread. In 1930 she received the papal approbation; In 1964, she was inducted into the Benedictine Confederation.

Today there are branches in (in order of creation ):

  • London
  • Largs, Scotland
  • Cobh, Ireland
  • Auckland, New Zealand
  • Riverstone, NSW, Australia
  • Sechura, Piura, Peru
  • Loja, Ecuador
  • Guatapé, Antioquia, Colombia
  • Rome, Italy

Tyburn Tyburn Convent and Shrine

51 ° 30 ' 47 " N, 0 ° 9' 49 " W51.51301 - 0.16366 The Tyburn - mother monastery with 26 nuns (2005) is in the City of Westminster, opposite Hyde Park on Bayswater Road. A few meters further east, at the junction of Edgware Road, in the patch panel is recessed, which marks the former site of the Tyburn gallows. The Convention has, in addition to and in the liturgy and of the Perpetual Adoration, the memory of the Catholic martyrs of the 16th and 17th centuries made ​​in the countries of the British Crown to the task, including the canonized Forty Martyrs of England and Wales and several hundred blessed spoken and not canonized martyrs, the supremacy of the king over the church not recognized. At least 105 of them were hanged at Tyburn Tree. In the basement of the monastery church, a memorial chapel for these martyrs is set up. Here numerous relics of those executed are kept. Above the altar is a replica of the three-legged Tyburn gallows with prayer inscriptions. On the walls are numerous arms of the martyrs are attached.

Contemplation Auckland City Loja (Ecuador) Antioquia Department Hyde Park, London
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