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>> Brie Carlisle: Values today well be

continuing.

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

chapter ten Origin of the Perpetual

Adoration

however, this almost sepulchre

parlor of which we have sought to convey an

idea is a purely local trait which is

not reproduced with the same severity in other

convents. At the convent of the Rudu

temple in particular, which belonged, in

truth, to another order, the black shutters

were replaced by brown curtains. In the

parlor itself was a salon with a polished wood

floor whose windows were draped in white muslin

curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of

frames, a portrait of a benedictine nun

with unveiled, face painted bouquets,

and even the head of a Turk. It is

in that garden of the temple convent that stood that

famous chestnut tree, which was renowned as the finest

and the largest in France, and which bore

the reputation among the good people of the 18th century

of being the father of all the chestnut trees of the

realm. As we have said,

this convent of the temple was occupied by Benedictines

of the perpetual adoration.

Benedictines quite different from those who depended on

Citeaux. This order of the

perpetual adoration is not very ancient and does

not go back more than 200 years.

In 1649, the holy

Sacrament was profaned on two occasions. A few days

apart, in two churches in Paris, at St.

Sulpice and at St. Jean et grave,

a rare and frightful sacrilege which set the whole

town in an uproar. Monsieur the prior

and viscourt general of Saint Germain d'Espresse

ordered a solemn procession of all his clergy,

in which the popes nuncio officiated.

But this expiation did not satisfy two

sainted women, Madame Courtin,

marquis de Beau, and the comtesse de

Chateauvieux. This outrage, committed

on the most holy sacrament of the altar, though but

temporary, would not depart from these holy souls,

and it seemed to them that it could be only

extenuated by a perpetual adoration in some

female monastery. Both of

them, one in 1652,

the other in 1653, made donations of

notable sums to Mother Catherine Debarre, called of the Holy

Sacrament a benedictine nun, for the

purpose of founding to this pious end

a, monastery of the order of Saint Benoit. The

first permission for this foundation was given to Mother

Catherine Debard by Monsieur de Metz, Abbe, of Saint

Germain, on condition that no woman

could be received unless she contributed 300

livres income, which amounts to

6000 livres to the principal.

After the abbey of St. Germain, the king accorded

letters patent and all the rest. A basial charter

and royal letters was confirmed in

1654 by the chamber of accounts and the

parliament. Such is the origin of the

legal consecration of the establishment of the Benedictines at the

perpetual adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris.

Their first convent was a new building in the rue

cassette. Out of the contributions of Mesdames

de Beaux and de Chateauvieux.

This order, as it will be seen, was

not confounded with the benedictine nuns of

Citeaux. It mounted back to the abbey of

Saint Germain des Pres in the same manner

that the ladies of the Sacred Heart go back to the general of the

Jesuits and the sisters of Charity, to the general

of the Lazarists. It was also

totally different from the Bernardines of the Petite Picpus,

whose interior we have just shown. In

1657, Pope Alexander VII

had authorized by a special brief, the

Bernadictines of the rue Petit pictpace, to practice the

perpetual adoration like the benedictine nuns of the Holy

Sacrament. But the two orders remained

distinct nonetheless. Thank

you for joining bite at a time books today while we read

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again. My name is Bree Carlisle,

and I hope you come back tomorrow for the next

bite of, le Miserable.

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