The Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre is a Catholic order of Benedictine nuns.
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They were founded by a Frenchwoman, Marie Adele Garnier (Mother Marie de Saint-Pierre)[1] in Montmartre (Mount of the Martyr), Paris in 1901. In the same year the French legislature passed Waldeck-Rousseau's Law of Associations which placed severe restrictions on religious bodies such as monasteries and convents and caused many of them to leave France. Mother Marie de Saint-Pierre therefore relocated the order to London where in 1903 they established themselves in Bayswater Road (near Marble Arch) at Tyburn Convent. Near the convent was the site of Tyburn tree where 105 Catholic martyrs - including Saint Oliver Plunkett and Saint Edmund Campion - were executed during and following the English Reformation from 1535 to 1681. The nuns established at Tyburn the Martyrs' Shrine[2] to honour the more than 350 Catholic Martyrs who witnessed to their faith by dying for it in England during and after the Reformation.[3]
Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament has continued night and day ever since the convent was established. Pilgrims and tourists from all over the world visit the shrine, finding a spiritual oasis in the midst of one of central London's busiest areas.[4]
The Tyburn community has opened other monasteries in Scotland, Ireland (at Cobh), New Zealand (two foundations, Tyburn Monastery at Bombay, Auckland and Tyburn Monastery Cor Iesu Fons Vitae at Ngakaru, Rotorua in the Hamilton Diocese), Australia (at Riverstone), Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and in Rome. Each monastery maintains Perpetual Adoration.[4]