The Order of Blessed Catherine

The Order of Blessed Catherine follows strict structural codes that renders formations that enable tonsured sisters to progress and pursue their ascetic lives in accordance to the Church of the Canon. Within the cohorts of the Order of the Blessed Catherine, an ecosystem is built that encourages equalled levels for the majority of the sisters, exempting the official roles which sisters can strive for to rise within the Church as secondary and tertiary servants of GOD. In alignment to the Church, the High Pontiff wields absolute authority from the Exalted Throne over the Order of the Blessed Catherine, and no sister can challenge his judgement regardless of her office. The sisters of the Order are sworn into their devotion until death, and so all of them are encouraged to aspire to deliver glory and charity in the name of the Creator. To progress and climb within the Order, the sisters must be well-learned in the Holy Scrolls and be equipped with extensive knowledge in theology, literature, history and mathematics. The sisterhood is glorified for the education that it provides to the free women of all realms and the archives it keeps, and so the sisters are to wield their knowledge and pursue it willingly.

The rebirth of the sisters of the Church of the Canon grew in the infancy of the settlement of the Atlas continent. The sisterhood was few and scarcely spread, with only three primary nuns that were settled in three distinct locations of the realms. In that time Sister Judith of Czena was a forthright sister that had claimed a religious hovel in the Marantine woodlands, where she thrived beside a garden and a warm pot of tea that she kept for travellers and holy knights. Sister Yuliya of Haense was the only nun in the most southern bastions, residing within the Hanseti-Ruskan capital of Markev as a quiet but hard working member of the religious community. Sister Bogdanova of Hussaria remained in isolation within the hinterlands, proceeding to pursue a cloistered life of silent service to GOD. From these three women, a great sisterhood grew, through zeal devotion and effort to breathe life back into the Church through the way of holy women.

In the Year of Our Lord, 1648, the Annsden Abbey was founded by His Eminence, then Elphias of Metz, and the Sisters Judith and Yuliya were tonsured as thee who would uphold the mantle of this holy and sanctified build. From humble beginnings, the foundations of the Order of the Blessed Catherine were laid, and continued to built upon with multiple women taking the cloth and swearing the holy vows of the Church. Upon the abdication of the High Pontiff Clement III, the sisterhood saw a great rise in their progressions and their numbers. Archbishop Elphias of Metz ascended the Exalted Throne as the High Pontiff Jude I; the glorious rise launching the sisterhood into sudden prominence and activity. It is recognised that without the faithful efforts of His Holiness, Jude I and Her Reverence, Mother Judith, the Order of the Blessed Catherine would not flourish and proceed in such haste and devotion.

The archives of the Annsden Abbey revealed vital reservoirs of truth in relation to the only other sororal item of the Church, a century past. The Order of St. Julia was conceived by Mother Lorina of Vekaro, and albeit her outlandish end, the virtues and attributes of the small institution provided inspiration for the reformation of the sisters and the genesis of the Order of the Blessed Catherine.

As the Church of Canon began to accommodate a plethora of vowed sisters, in the Year of Our Lord 1652, the Convent of Esteresa was established within the Principality of Evereux, commonly known as the Duchy of Curon. It was with great charity that His Serene Highness, Alfred I of Cyrilsburg donated the institution to the Order, in hopes that the Mother Church’s purities would cleanse his streets of its unabsolved sin. In the same year, the Order combatted great hardship with the Haensic men who opposed the Church and the Lucienists, preying on the sisters as outlets of their abrasive hate. It was the fiery and inspiring words of Sister Yuliya that filled the Order, preventing submission and allowing the women to rise up and seize independence and sources of strength.

The modern reform of the sisterhood that led campaigns of devotion, compassion, and restoration rather than hypocrisy and hate was contributed to by the constant endeavours of Mother Judith and the Sisters Yuliya, Darya, and Alyona. Notable mentions would be the High Pontiff Jude I and the Archbishop Yurii of Haense.