Congregation of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament

The Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament is an enclosed religious order and a reform of the Dominican Order devoted to the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. They are commonly referred to as the Sacramentines. The Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament, also called Sacramentines, were a female religious congregation, who, in 1941, became part of the Assumptionist Order, the Orantes of the Assumption.

Friar Antoine Le Quien, O.P., (1601–1676), established a religious house for women, exclusively devoted to the practice of Perpetual Adoration. He had entered the Dominican Order, and after ordination was named master of novices at Avignon, and later prior of the monastery at Paris. In 1639 Père Antoine founded this house at Marseille.

Sister Anne Negrel was named the first Superior. The definitive establishment took place in 1659-60, when Etienne de Puget, Bishop of Marseille, erected them into a congregation under the title of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. The final formalities for the approval of the order having been concluded in Rome (1680), Pope Innocent XI expedited a papal brief, which could not be put in execution because of a change of bishop. Pope Innocent XII issued a new brief the same year in which the Process was opened for the canonization of its founder.

The only foundation of the order during the 18th century was made at Bollène, in the Vaucluse, in 1725.

Sixty years later, during the period of the Terrors of the French Revolution, that monastery, then under the leadership of Mother de La Fare, the Couvent du Saint-Sacrement saw 13 of its members executed, from 5 to 26 July 1794, among them Andrée Minutte, and Marie-Marguerite Bonnet. The process for the canonization of these martyrs was opened at Rome in January 1907.

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