Benedictine Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Congregational convents are located in France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Mexico, Poland, Germany, Uganda, Italy and Haiti.

After the constitution was approved, the sisters began to make an additional vow to sustain the cult and ceaseless adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

The Warsaw convent is the only foundation from the time of the founder that exists continuously in the same place, and one of ten established during the lifetime of Mother Mechtilde.

During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 the church and convent were completely destroyed, burying in its ruins 35 nuns and a high number of inhabitants of the Old Town.

In 1857, Maria Rickenbach Monastery was founded at Niederrickenbach at the site of a Wayside shrine with assistance from the monks of Engelberg Abbey.

[4] In 1874, sisters from Maria Rickenbach came to Missouri to assist monks from Engelberg Abbey in ministering to German immigrants.

Depending on the monastery, the sisters bake the host, produce rosaries, icons, candles and food products.