Blessed Mary Magdalene of the Incarnation (1770-1824) was born Caterina Sordini in Italy to a Catholic family. After having a vision of Jesus, she entered the Franciscan Tertiary Monastery in 1788 at age 18 and took the name Sister Mary Magdalene of the Incarnation.
 
The next year, Sister Mary Magdalene had another vision of Jesus. In this vision, Jesus was seated on a throne of grace in the Blessed Sacrament being adored by other sisters. She claimed that, in her vision, he told her that he had chosen her to establish the work of perpetual adoration of Jesus in the Eucharist.
 
Her path to her was clear, she set out to be the foundress of an institute dedicated to perpetual adoration of the Eucharist. In the meantime, she was elected Abbess of the Monastery and the community thrived under her care. She experienced more extraordinary phenomena and the spiritual life of those in her care deepened. All the while, she worked to start her new institute.
 
Ultimately, after many challenges, she founded the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Pope Pius VII approved the institute in 1818 and they settled at the church of Saint Anna al Quirinale in Rome. The Sisters of Perpetual Adoration were dedicated to perpetual, solemn, and public exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament. They committed themselves to adoration day and night.
 
Sister Mary Magdalene of the Incarnation died in Rome among her sisters. Since its foundation, the Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration now has over ninety monasteries around the world. She was declared Blessed in 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI. Blessed Mary Magdalene, pray for us!