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the Holy Sacrament at Paris. Their first convent was ‘a new
building’ in the Rue Cassette, out of the contributions of
Mesdames de Boucs and de Chateauvieux.
This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded
with the Benedictine nuns of Citeaux. It mounted back to
the Abbe of Saint-Germain des Pres, in the same manner
that the ladies of the Sacred Heart go back to the general
of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity to the general of the
Lazarists.
It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the
Petit-Picpus, whose interior we have just shown. In 1657,
Pope Alexander VII. had authorized, by a special brief, the
Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, to practise the Per-
petual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the Holy
Sacrament. But the two orders remained distinct none the
less.