Sisters of the Precious Blood (Switzerland)

The Sisters of the Precious Blood (Latin: Congregatio Pretiosissimi Sanguinis) is a Catholic religious order for women founded in Grisons, Switzerland, in 1834[1] by Mother Maria Anna Brunner.

Francis de Sales Brunner) bought Löwenberg Castle at Schluein, which had been abandoned for 30 years, to found a school for poor boys.

[4] The following year, both Maria Anna and Father Brunner spent a nine-month pilgrimage in Rome, where they were enrolled in the Archconfraternity of the Most Precious Blood.

The rule was founded on that of St. Benedict and approved by the bishop, the object of the community being the adoration of the Most Precious Blood and the education of youth, including the care of orphans and homeless or destitute girls.

[4] After his novitiate, he returned and continued the work he had previously begun, but also started educating boys for the priesthood, to inaugurate a German province of the congregation.

[9] Today, the former convent at Maria Stein continues as a center of prayer and community events and houses a museum as well as the Shrine of the Holy Relics.

[10] In 1886, Archbishop William Henry Elder found it advisable to revise the rule drawn up by Father Brunner to adapt it to altered conditions.

This revision, besides extending the time of adoration through the day and night, increased the teaching force of the community, who were thus enabled to take charge of a more significant number of parochial schools.