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The Order is based in the [[Convent Sanctorum]] on [[Ophelia VII]]{{Fn|1a}}. The order was originally called the '''Order of the Fiery Heart''' and was founded by order of the [[Ecclesiarch]] [[Alexis XXII]] when the Convent Sanctorum was split.{{Fn|1b}} Their first leader and Patron [[Saint]] was [[Canoness]] [[Katherine]], who led her order for many decades before being murdered by the Witch-cult of Mnestteus. So moved by her death were her Sisters that they changed the orders name to the Order of Our Martyred Lady in her honour.{{Fn|2a}} The Order wore the black of mourning for their lost lady for many centuries afterward{{Fn|6}}, a style consisting of black armor and black cloaks with red lining, with red used for weaponry and white used for unit insignia and piping around the cloaks.{{Fn|1c}} After the Order's losses on [[Armageddon]], the majority of the Preceptories changed the cloth color to all red, with the first line of the [[Fede Imperialis]] stitched between parallel lines of silver along the bottom edge to remind them of the martyring of their Sisters on Armageddon.{{Fn|2b}}
The Order has determination beyond even their fellow Sisters of the other orders, forever driven to avenge the death of Katherine and their Sisters who fall in battle. To their enemies, they are not known for mercy, but instead for thorough and utter destructiveness.{{Fn|6}} Since the death of their [[Matriarch (Adepta Sororitas)|Matriarch]], the Order of Our Martyred Lady has developed a cult of martyrdom that is unparalleled amongst the Sisterhood. All Sisters are taught that to die serving the Emperor is the purest fate his servants can hope for, but amongst the Sisters of Our Martyred Lady this ideal is expressed
so fervently that it can appear to the uninitiated as though they are suicidal.{{Fn|17d}}