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The Servants of the Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic contemplative, but not cloistered, congregation of sisters with a focus on Eucharistic adoration. ==History== The Congregation was founded in France in 1859 by Saint Peter Julian Eymard, who was also known as the "Apostle of the Eucharist". Sister Marguerite Guillot collaborated with Eymard and became the first Superior General for the congregation, which was approved by Pope Pius IX in 1871.〔(Servants of the Blessed Sacrament, Waterville, Maine )〕 The Servants' religious congregation is the women's branch of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, also founded Peter Eymard over one hundred forty years ago.〔(Connors SSS, Virginia. "Servants of the Blessed Sacrament Celebrate 50 Years in United States", ''Vocation News. Spring 1997 )〕 The first house in the United States was established in Waterville, Maine in April 1947, by six sisters from the Canadian foundation. In June of 1956 a second American foundation was established in Pueblo, Colorado.〔 In 2009, due to lack of vocations, the American sisters asked the help of the sisters in the Philippines so the Congregation will continue its Eucharistic presence and mission in Pueblo. Four sisters came.〔 From France, the Congregation spread throughout the world. Their houses are located in France, Canada, Brazil, Holland, the United States, Australia, Italy, the Philippines, Vietnam and Congo. The congregation's generalate is in Sherbrooke,Qc.〔 In January 1996, a tragedy occurred at the Sisters' convent, located in Waterville, Maine. A mentally ill man broke into the convent in the middle of a winter storm, and attacked four of the nine Sisters who lived there. Two, including the Mother Superior were killed, while another was so severely injured that she had to be placed in a nursing home.〔(Baker, Sally. ""A Community Heals" )〕 The nuns who survived the attack have since died. The individual was committed to what was then Augusta Mental Health Institute, now Riverview Psychiatric Hospital, but in June 2013 was granted unsupervised time in the community, despite objections from prosecutors.〔(WMTW, News 8, "Man who killed Waterville nuns allowed unsupervised time" June 5, 2013 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Servants of the Blessed Sacrament」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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