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The Abbey of New Clairvaux is a rural Trappist monastery located in Northern California in the small town of Vina in Tehama County. [1] The farmland, once owned by Leland Stanford , grows prunes , walnuts , and grapes that the monks harvest from the orchards and vineyards to sustain the community.
Vina (Spanish: Viña, meaning "Vine") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tehama County, California. [2] Vina sits at an elevation of 210 feet (64 m). [2] The 2010 United States census reported Vina's population was 237. Vina is the location of the Roman Catholic Trappist Abbey of New Clairvaux. [4]
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Two monks transferred their vow of stability to Genesee Abbey, another Trappist abbey in New York. [21] One monk, Father Charles Cummings, OCSO became the chaplain at Our Lady of Angels monastery for the Trappist nuns in Crozet, Virginia. [22] He died in 2020 while transferring his vow of stability to the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina, CA. [23]
The Abbot-Emeritus of the Abbey of New Clairvaux, Thomas X. Davis, first saw the stones and pictured them reassembled in a monastic context on September 15, 1955—his first day in California. He had arrived in San Francisco to serve as a new monk in Vina, California , at the Trappist monastery called Our Lady of New Clairvaux.
It was established as an independent abbey the following year, and the founding Mother Superior, Mother Myriam Dardenne, O.C.S.O., was elected the community's first abbess on 21 November 1964. [2] The abbey was dedicated on May 2, 1967, by Leo Thomas Maher, Bishop of Santa Rosa. [1]
List of abbeys and priories is a link list for any abbey or priory. As of 2016 [update] , the Catholic Church has 3,600 abbeys and monasteries worldwide. [ 1 ]