An event of historic significance in the life of the Catholic Church took place at a private ceremony in France last month, witnessed by a small number of Tyburn Nuns, the order of contemplative Benedictines whose mother house stands just yards from the site of the gallows where more than 100 martyrs died during the Reformation.
The venue was a newly opened chapel within “Maison Garnier”, the birthplace of Marie Adèle Garnier, foundress of the order, in Grancey-le-Château, near Dijon.
Mother Marilla Aw, superior general of the Tyburn Nuns, approached two kneeling priests and presented each with a medal depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady and also a crucifix which they kissed as she prayed aloud: “Escuchad, mis hijos, la llamada de Cristo como uds toman su cruz para seguir a Él …”
