Society of the Precious Blood
The Society of the Precious Blood is an
History
The Order dates its history from 1905 when Mother Millicent Mary SPB (formerly Millicent Taylor)
In 1957 a group of five sisters established a priory in the Kingdom of Lesotho. This in 1966 become an autonomous province of the Order and spread into South Africa in 1980.[6]
The foundress
Millicent Taylor was born in India in 1869; her father, Reynell Taylor was an army officer. At the age of 22, she declared her wish for the religious life but became a parish worker in poor parishes in east London, Reading and Birmingham. In 1905, she made her first profession on St Luke's Day, 1905, in St Jude's Church, Birmingham. She resigned as Superior in 1942 because of ill health and died in 1956.
Structure
SPB United Kingdom
An elected Reverend Mother presides over the sisters.
- Burnham Abbey, Maidenhead, is the only convent
SPB Africa
An elected Prioress presides over the African sisters, whose convents are:
- Priory of Our Lady Mother of Mercy, Maseru, Lesotho
- St Monica's House of Prayer, Kimberley, South Africa
See also
References
- ^ Calendar of Commemoration, Diocese of Oxford
- ^ See Guide to the Religious Communities of the Anglican Communion, authorised by the Advisory Council on Religious Communities, published by A R Mowbray, London, 1951, pages 53-54.
- ^ The religious communities of the Church of England (1918); Allan T. Cameron
- ^ See official entry on Anglican Communion website.
- ^ Entry on diocesan website Archived 2012-07-12 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ See this autonomous community's entry at the website of religious communities.
