On March 21, 2024, the Adorers’ novices Ann Mutuku, Yeraldine Motta and Isis Segura visited the Museum of St. Mary Micaela, foundress of the Congregation of the Adorers, Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament and of Charity. On this visit they were accompanied by Sister Elisa Altadill, curator of the exhibition, and by Sister Sumi Thomas, mistress of novices.

Museum of Santa María Micaela

The Museum of St. Maria Micaela, located in the Mother House of the Congregation in Madrid, Spain, was reopened on May 12, 2023, after a remodeling that has provided greater breadth and agility to the exhibition.

This space wants its visitors to get to know the figure of Madre Sacramento clearly and is designed in 5 rooms, in addition to the entrance.

Throughout these rooms, visitors can discover the reason for our origins; the childhood and adolescence of Saint Maria Micaela; the great inspirations she received to dedicate herself to God and to women in prostitution; the Eucharistic favours; the foundations of school-houses she undertook in her lifetime; objects that belonged to Mother Sacramento…

There is also a space dedicated to the Eucharist, her dominating passion, candles and censers that belonged to her and a banner with the Monstrance that Micaela had built with her jewels. On the other hand, in the Museum you can contemplate the picture painted by the artist Luis de Madrazo (romanticism) in the same year in which Micaela died (1864).

Testimonies of the novices after the visit to the Museum

About the visit to the Museum, Isis, a novice from Cuba, says that for her it was “a dream to be able to be close to the Saint, her things, her writings, all that we have preserved of her…”. To know the museum, she continues, “a few days after having celebrated with the Church her 90th anniversary of canonization is a gift from God”.

“The room that helped me the most to feel close to her was the Eucharistic favours…. The paintings that accompany this room remind us of where Micaela drew the strength and joy to devote herself to such a great task of accompanying the girls and sisters of the foundations, the formula of her Vows…”.

Likewise, Isis explains how “everything speaks to me of her and it is also a reason to thank God for her life and vocation and for inviting me to be part of this history, of this congregational fabric that continues being constructed with the affectionate stitch of Love to God that each sister has been putting and that we also continue weaving today”.

On her part, Yeraldine, Colombian Adorer novice, tells that the visit to the Museum of our foundress “has meant the fine threading of the history of the Saint and the foundation of the Congregation”. In her “the space of the 3 Eucharistic Favours resonated in a special way, beyond what happened, because I was able to perceive the sensitive and affable spirit of the Saint”.

Finally, Ann, a novice from Kenya, shared that this experience at the Mother Sacramento Museum “was for me a great richness and at the same time a grace. Before, theoretically I knew a few things about her life, but seeing her personal objects that she used in her time, I was moved because it was like coming into contact with her own person and her life. It gave me a lot of insight into the ‘roots’ of the Congregation.

We invite all those who live or pass through Madrid to visit this Museum of Santa María Micaela, to discover more clearly and beautifully who our foundress is, her spiritual and social legacy.