Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament
Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament, born Catherine de Bar was a French nun, the founder of the order of Benedictine Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, who was recognized as the Servant of God in the Catholic Church.Life
Catherine de Bar was born at Saint-Dié, Lorraine in northeastern France, on 31 December 1614, the third child of Jean and Marguerite de Guillon de Bar. They belonged to the lower nobility.
Catherine joined the Annonciade, taking the name Sister Saint-John the Evangelist. In May 1635, Mother de Bar, and the nuns of the convent in Bruyères were forced to flee before the Swedish army. Some nuns exhausted by hardships fell ill with the plague. Catherine de Bar found shelter with the Benedictines in Rambervillers.
In 1654 in Paris she founded the Order of the Benedictine Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. This was the first society formally organized for the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
