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The Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters (Servarum Spiritus Sancti de Adoratione Perpetua), also known as the Sister-Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration, were founded 1896 in the Netherlands by Saint Arnold Janssen, a German Catholic priest who had founded the Society of the Divine Word in 1875 and the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit in 1889. Janssen was canonized by Pope Paul II in 2003. The Adoration Sisters are a Roman Catholic religious institute of contemplative cloistered nuns. The Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters were to be a powerhouse of prayer behind the active missionaries, since Janssen understood the power of prayer. Since the founding of the Missionary Sisters, there had been those who wished to dedicate themselves to active missionary service, as well as those who wanted to serve the missions from behind the doors of an enclosed convent. The nuns of the Adoration Sisters live a contemplative life, focused on perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, offering intercessory prayers for the world and for those on the mission field. At first, the cloistered Sisters lived in a separate wing of the Mission Sisters' Sacred Heart Convent, and carried the same name as the Missionary Sisters - Servants of the Holy Spirit. By 1914, the Bishop had agreed that the Adoration Sisters should become an autonomous congregation, with their own Motherhouse, Holy Spirit Convent. Within the cloister, the nuns wear rose-colored habits in honor of the Holy Spirit. They are sometimes known as the Pink Sisters because of the color of their habits. The congregaton's first house abroad was in Pennsylvania, established by Mother Mary Michael (born Adolfine Tönnies) in 1915. Currently, the congregation has twenty-two houses in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Germany, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, Togo, and the United States. Before the communists took over, there was a foundation of the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters in China.

 

 

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