Religious of the Perpetual Adoration

It was founded by Sister Elizabeth Zwirer, in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, 1526, following the Benedictine rule.

In early 1789 members started the practice of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament during the day before the closed tabernacle.

A lay association was established, the members of which contributed a small sum of money for the expenses of the sanctuary entailed by perpetual adoration.

Acting on the advice of their confessor, Pierre Perro, the sisters, on 8 January 1846, began the practice of adoration by night as well as by day.

In 1852 to signify their devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, they decided to wear a figure of an ostensorium on the breast of their habit.