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Speaker:Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
Speaker:chapter ten Origin of the Perpetual
Speaker:Adoration
Speaker:however, this almost sepulchre
Speaker:parlor of which we have sought to convey an
Speaker:idea is a purely local trait which is
Speaker:not reproduced with the same severity in other
Speaker:convents. At the convent of the Rudu
Speaker:temple in particular, which belonged, in
Speaker:truth, to another order, the black shutters
Speaker:were replaced by brown curtains. In the
Speaker:parlor itself was a salon with a polished wood
Speaker:floor whose windows were draped in white muslin
Speaker:curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of
Speaker:frames, a portrait of a benedictine nun
Speaker:with unveiled, face painted bouquets,
Speaker:and even the head of a Turk. It is
Speaker:in that garden of the temple convent that stood that
Speaker:famous chestnut tree, which was renowned as the finest
Speaker:and the largest in France, and which bore
Speaker:the reputation among the good people of the 18th century
Speaker:of being the father of all the chestnut trees of the
Speaker:realm. As we have said,
Speaker:this convent of the temple was occupied by Benedictines
Speaker:of the perpetual adoration.
Speaker:Benedictines quite different from those who depended on
Speaker:Citeaux. This order of the
Speaker:perpetual adoration is not very ancient and does
Speaker:not go back more than 200 years.
Speaker:In 1649, the holy
Speaker:Sacrament was profaned on two occasions. A few days
Speaker:apart, in two churches in Paris, at St.
Speaker:Sulpice and at St. Jean et grave,
Speaker:a rare and frightful sacrilege which set the whole
Speaker:town in an uproar. Monsieur the prior
Speaker:and viscourt general of Saint Germain d'Espresse
Speaker:ordered a solemn procession of all his clergy,
Speaker:in which the popes nuncio officiated.
Speaker:But this expiation did not satisfy two
Speaker:sainted women, Madame Courtin,
Speaker:marquis de Beau, and the comtesse de
Speaker:Chateauvieux. This outrage, committed
Speaker:on the most holy sacrament of the altar, though but
Speaker:temporary, would not depart from these holy souls,
Speaker:and it seemed to them that it could be only
Speaker:extenuated by a perpetual adoration in some
Speaker:female monastery. Both of
Speaker:them, one in 1652,
Speaker:the other in 1653, made donations of
Speaker:notable sums to Mother Catherine Debarre, called of the Holy
Speaker:Sacrament a benedictine nun, for the
Speaker:purpose of founding to this pious end
Speaker:a, monastery of the order of Saint Benoit. The
Speaker:first permission for this foundation was given to Mother
Speaker:Catherine Debard by Monsieur de Metz, Abbe, of Saint
Speaker:Germain, on condition that no woman
Speaker:could be received unless she contributed 300
Speaker:livres income, which amounts to
Speaker:6000 livres to the principal.
Speaker:After the abbey of St. Germain, the king accorded
Speaker:letters patent and all the rest. A basial charter
Speaker:and royal letters was confirmed in
Speaker:1654 by the chamber of accounts and the
Speaker:parliament. Such is the origin of the
Speaker:legal consecration of the establishment of the Benedictines at the
Speaker:perpetual adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris.
Speaker:Their first convent was a new building in the rue
Speaker:cassette. Out of the contributions of Mesdames
Speaker:de Beaux and de Chateauvieux.
Speaker:This order, as it will be seen, was
Speaker:not confounded with the benedictine nuns of
Speaker:Citeaux. It mounted back to the abbey of
Speaker:Saint Germain des Pres in the same manner
Speaker:that the ladies of the Sacred Heart go back to the general of the
Speaker:Jesuits and the sisters of Charity, to the general
Speaker:of the Lazarists. It was also
Speaker:totally different from the Bernardines of the Petite Picpus,
Speaker:whose interior we have just shown. In
Speaker:1657, Pope Alexander VII
Speaker:had authorized by a special brief, the
Speaker:Bernadictines of the rue Petit pictpace, to practice the
Speaker:perpetual adoration like the benedictine nuns of the Holy
Speaker:Sacrament. But the two orders remained
Speaker:distinct nonetheless. Thank
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