The Servants of the Blessed Sacrament (in latin: Societatis Ancillarum a Sanctissimo Sacramento) is a Roman Catholic contemplative, but not cloistered, congregation of sisters with a focus on Eucharistic adoration.
In February 1840, she recovered from a bout of typhoid fever and the family made a pilgrimage to Our Lady of Fourviere in Lyons in thanksgiving.
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.
These sisters practiced continuous adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in their chapel at Armadale, a suburb of Melbourne, and lived by a strict regimen of silence, prayer and work.
All of this changed soon after Vatican II, when Catholic religious were asked to review and update their Rule of Life and adapt it to the contemporary world.
In 1980, three of the sisters moved to Sydney to establish a convent in Newtown, where they worked closely with Fr Ted Kennedy and the local Indigenous community of Redfern.
Their houses are located in France, Canada, Brazil, Holland, the United States, Australia, Italy, the Philippines, Vietnam and Congo.