We are the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a vowed religious community of Roman Catholic women who were founded in 1834 as a teaching order by the Italian, St. Maria De Mattias, in the small town of Acuto, Italy. Worldwide, we are nearly 1,000 women strong, including 140 in the U.S.
We are the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a vowed religious community of Roman Catholic women who were founded in 1834 as a teaching order by the Italian, St. Maria De Mattias, in the small town of Acuto, Italy. Worldwide, we are nearly 1,000 women strong, including 140 in the U.S.
Sister JoAnn Mark likes a challenge and she begins a new one this week. On Easter Sunday, the 74-year-old left Wichita, Kan., for New York… Read More »Adorer to Lead NGO that Consults with United Nations
By Sisters Dani Brought and Kris Schrader Last week, we walked the Way of the Cross from the Guatemalan village of El Carrizal, San Pedro… Read More »A Guatemalan Village’s Long Walk to Justice
By Sisters Dani Brought and Kris Schrader Last week, we walked the Way of the Cross from the Guatemalan village of El Carrizal, San Pedro… Read More »A Guatemalan Village’s Long Walk to Justice
On this day, March 25, in 1965, five Adorers of the Blood of Christ from Ruma, Ill., joined thousands of civil-rights demonstrators in the last… Read More »March to Montgomery: A Sister Remembers
Sister Emiliana Herman died Feb. 4, 2015. She was 96 and spent 69 years as a professed Adorer of the Blood of Christ. She was… Read More »Sister Emiliana Herman
Sister Floriana Voegeli died Feb. 2, 2015 in Wichita. She was 93 and had been an Adorer of the Blood of Christ for 77 years.… Read More »Sister Floriana Voegeli
Sister Janiece Ille, a Texas native who taught, did parish work, and was a chaplain to federal prisoners, died on Jan. 11, 2015, in Wichita.… Read More »Sister Janiece Ille
A little girl with big plans for her life can’t wait to join the Adorers’ Junior Associates, a group of 28 young people that Sr.… Read More »Tiny Sr. DeeDee: Little Girl with Big Plans
It has been 22 years since ASC sisters were martyred during the Liberian Civil War. In honor, we revisit a reflection written by Sister Regina Siegfried,… Read More »Credible Witnesses: A Reflection on the ASC Liberia Martyrs
It has been 22 years since ASC sisters were martyred during the Liberian Civil War. In honor, we revisit a reflection written by Sister Regina Siegfried,… Read More »Credible Witnesses: A Reflection on the ASC Liberia Martyrs
Whereas, we Adorers of the Blood of Christ believe creation is a revelation of God, we proclaim our Land Ethic.
In October of 1992, five U.S. Adorer missionaries in Liberia were murdered in that nation’s civil war. Sisters Barbara Ann Muttra, Shirley Kolmer, Mary Joel Kolmer, Agnes Mueller, and Kathleen McGuire are remembered today globally as the Martyrs of Charity. Within the community, they are still remembered as sisters and friends.