Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood

For other uses, see Sisters of the Precious Blood.

The Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in 1861 by Catherine Aurelia Caouette in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada. They are a contemplative cloistered community, holding nineteen monasteries of the Precious Blood in the United States, Canada, and Japan.

Locations

• Monastery of the Precious Blood (Edmonton, Canada)
• Monastery of the Precious Blood (Lafayette, Indiana) - Opened in 1955 and closed in 2006.
• Monastery of the Precious Blood (Portland, Maine)
• Monastery of the Precious Blood (Manchester, New Hampshire)
• Monastery of the Precious Blood (Brooklyn, New York)
• Monastery of the Precious Blood (Watertown, New York)

See also

• Rt. Rev. Mgr. Joseph F. Stedman.

References

• "Sisters of the Precious Blood-the thirty ninth anniversary of the order celebrated in Brooklyn." New York Times. New York, N.Y.: September 17, 1900. p. 10, 1 p. The order had 10 houses in the U.S. and Canada, enclosing 300 souls. ProQuest document ID: 105751771 Text Word Count 873. (subscription) viewed 9/29/2006

• Cook, Joan. "Even Today, Some Nuns Choose the Cloistered Life of Prayer." New York Times. New York, N.Y.: July 6, 1971. p. 38, 1 p. ProQuest document ID: 90680535 Text Word Count 2853 (subscription) viewed 9/29/2006

• Lieblich, Julia. "The Cloistered Life; More American women are finding a vocation in the age-old observance of silence and solitude to facilitate prayer." New York Times. New York, N.Y.: July 10, 1983. p. SM12, 9 pp. ProQuest document ID: 119514659 Text Word Count 5487 (subscription) viewed 9/29/2006

External links

• Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood Manchester, New Hampshire
• Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood
• "Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12374a.htm.