The congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God was founded in 1869 in London, England by Mother Magdalen Taylor, an Englishwoman who in secular life had worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War. She was assisted by Lady Georgiana Fullerton, who was a noted religious novelist of the time.
The congregation received papal approval in 1879, and a convent was opened in Rome in 1887. This was paid for by Prince Alessandro Torlonia, and the Fullerton family of English Catholic gentry.
In 1890, the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom was founded here to pray for the "Conversion of England". In 1895, a copy of a famous ancient fresco of the Mother and Child in the catacombs of Santa Priscilla was enshrined here, under the title of "Our Lady, Queen of the Prophets".
The convent and church were rebuilt by Carlo Maria Busiri Vici in 1908, The church itself being dedicated to Saint George and the English Martyrs, respecting Pope Leo XIII’s desire that this should be a place of prayer for the unity of the churches in the United Kingdom.
At  Mater Dei, the name of the Convent near to the Spanish Steps in central Rome,  today we celebrated the Feast of Our Lady Queen of Prophets and presented the Sisters with this copy of the fresco as a gift from the Beda College. We are grateful to Matthew Bond , a student for the Diocese of Wrexham, whose has crafted this painting for us.