[1] In 1905, a compulsory purchase order for land for Brussels-Central railway station was made on the Rue des Sols/Stuiversstraat, and this included the convent.

Falling vocations meant the convent was closed in the early 1980s, and after standing derelict for nearly 20 years, it was acquired to become the central library of the European Commission.

In 1848, the foundress' childhood friend, Baroness d'Hoogvorst (née Countess of Mercy-Argenteau), bought the building on the Rue des Sols/Stuiversstraat, originally the town house of the Counts of Salazar, from the visiting sisters.

The chapel was built in 1435[2] on the corner of the Rue des Douze Apôtres/Twaalfapostelenstraat where Brussels' first synagogue had stood[3] until the Jews were evicted in a pogrom in 1370 – the papal bull establishing the Eucharistic vocation as an expiation of the Host desecration.

The entire neighbourhood was acquired by the Belgian State in 1907 as part of a project to connect the North and South railway termini.

[3][4] The church is a 19th-century red brick neo-Gothic construction, though the rebuilt version of the early 1900s lacks the tower, side isles, stone decorations, rose window and pinnacles of the original.

They were produced by the factory of the Schlierbach convent in Upper Austria and financed by nine Austrian regions to cover five biblical themes.