Mother Nicola Golden Jubilee- Peru |
Mother Marie Adele |
Recently I heard
from my Benedictine nuns in Sechura ,
Peru . Their
Mother Abbess from England
was making a visitation. Their foundress
MOTHER MARIE ADELE GARNIER has been
made a Servant of God and evidence for her cause is being gathered.
Mother
Marie Adela Garnier was born on August 15, 1838, in Grancey-le-Chateau, in
northeastern France (Burgandy). She had three sisters and one brother. For many
years she taught as a governess and was greatly loved and esteemed by both
parents and children. From her youth she
felt deeply the love of Christ touching her heart, drawing her to surrender
herself totally to him. Her devotion to the Eucharistic Christ became the center
of her spiritual life.
The
Eucharist, the Sacrament and Sacrifice of the love of Christ, and the Sacred
Heart, symbol of the love human and divine of Christ for his Father and for all
humanity, could never be separated in the soul of Marie Adèle.
Early in
her life, she had a vision of Jesus in a Host given to her during Communion,
which affected her for the rest of her life. In 1885, Marie Adèle sought to live this Eucharistic
life as a solitary at Montmartre in Paris .
Her health failed and she was obliged to abandon this way of life.
Several
years later the Lord called her to establish a religious family consecrated to
the worship and praise of the Holy Trinity through liturgical prayer and
Eucharistic adoration in the contemplative life. She founded her Congregation -
the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre, in 1898 at
Montmartre, Paris ,
with the approbation of Cardinal
Richard, Archbishop of Paris. The new Community would be dedicated to the
perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament exposed in the Monstrance.
Mother
Marie Adèle established this form of
contemplative life within the monastic tradition of the Church under the Rule
of St. Benedict. In 1901 the young
community fled to England on
account of the laws of France
against religious Orders. The Foundress settled her new community at Tyburn in
London , at the
famous site of the martyrdom of more than 100 Catholic Reformation Martyrs.
This
monastery is now the Mother House of her Congregation which has monasteries in England , Scotland ,
Ireland , Australia , New
Zealand , Peru ,
Ecuador , Colombia , Italy
and France .
Toward the
end of her life, in 1923, she had another vision in the Eucharist, this one of the
living heart of Jesus.
Mother
Marie Adèle Garnier died at Tyburn in the year 1924 renowned for holiness and
virtue. She is honored and remembered especially for her heroic love of God
and neighbor, her spirit of prayer, divine contemplation, rich mystical and
spiritual doctrine, humility, obedience, patience, simplicity & purity of
heart, and above all for her spirit of total "self-abandon" to the
Holy Will of God, which she declared to be her unique good.
In a letter
she had written to Father Charles Sauve she related the following:
“At the
moment in which the priest took a particle of the Holy Host and put it into the
chalice I raised my eyes to adore and to contemplate the holy particle…The
fingers of the priest held not a white particle but a particle of striking red,
the color of blood and luminous at the same time … The fingers of the priest
were red on the right of the particle, as from a blood stain that seemed still
wet.”
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