Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

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Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration is an Roman Catholic religious order order founded by Sister Mary Anselma in Clyde, Missouri at the Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration in 1874.

The order was created as an adjunct to Conception Abbey founded in Conception, Missouri to minister to German and Irish immigrants.

The order has houses in:

• Clyde, Missouri
• Tucson, Arizona
• Sand Springs, Oklahoma
• Dayton, Wyoming

Its house in Clyde has 550 documented saint artifacts -- the biggest collection in the United States.

The house traces it routes to the Convent of Perpetual Adoration at Maria Rickenbach which is near the Engelberg Abbey in the Swiss Alps

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