Order of the Sacred Rose

The Order of the Sacred Rose is one of the major Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas, or the Sisters of Battle, founded in honour of Saint Arabella by the Ecclesiarch Deacis VI in the middle of the 38th Millennium at the same time as the Order of the Bloody Rose was founded. The order is based on Terra in the Convent Prioris. In the wake of the mad High Lord Goge Vandire’s downfall in the 36th Millennium, which ended his tyrannical Reign of Blood, Sebastian Thor was declared Ecclesiarch, and instituted sweeping reforms to the Ecclesiarchy. The High Lords of Terra were fearful of a repetition of the Reign of Blood. And so the “Decree Passive” was passed, forbidding the Ecclesiarchy from maintaining “men under arms.”