Page 422 of 1181 CHAPTER X. ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION - Les Misérables

It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the Holy Sacrament. But the two orders remained distinct none the less.

		"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue." Confucio