Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament (birth name Catherine de Bar, 1614–1698), was born at at Saint-Dié, Lorraine in northeastern France. At first an Annunciade nun and then a Benedictine

Order of Saint Benedict

The Order of Saint Benedict is a Roman Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of St. Benedict. Within the order, each individual community maintains its own autonomy, while the organization as a whole exists to represent their mutual interests...

, in 1654 she founded the Order of the Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Paris. This was the first society formally organized for the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Blessed Sacrament

The Blessed Sacrament, or the Body and Blood of Christ, is a devotional name used in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Old Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches, to refer to the Host after it has been consecrated in the sacrament of the Eucharist...

See also

• Concepcion Cabrera de Armida
  Concepcion Cabrera de Armida
  The Venerable Concepción Cabrera de Armida was a Mexican Roman Catholic mystic and writer....
  
  
• Maria Candida of the Eucharist
  Maria Candida of the Eucharist
  Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist, O.C.D., was a Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, beatified by Pope John Paul II. The daughter of an appellate court judge, Pietro Barba, the family home was in Palermo, Sicily, but she was born in Catanzaro, Italy, during a brief assignment of her father to that...
  
  
• Marguerite Guillot