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Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi // ⓘ, OCSO (September 1903 – 20 January 1964) was an Igbo Nigerian priest of the Catholic Church who worked in the Archdiocese of Onitsha and later became a Trappist monk at Mount Saint Bernard Monastery in England. On 22 March 1998, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. His feast day is 20 January.
In particular, the number of Trappist monasteries throughout the world has more than doubled over the past 60 years: from 82 in 1940 to 127 in 1970, and 169 at the beginning of the 21st century. [25] In 1940, there were six Trappist monasteries in Asia and the Pacific, only one Trappist monastery in Africa, and none in Latin America. [25]
Our Lady of Spring Bank Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Oconomowoc that closed in 2011. [100] Solus Christi Brothers, an Eastern Orthodox monastery in Milwaukee. [101] St. Mary of the Angels Church and Monastery, a Roman Catholic monastery in Green Bay. [102] St. Norbert Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in De Pere. [103]
Mount St Bernard Abbey is a Roman Catholic monastery belonging to the Trappist Order, near Coalville, Leicestershire, England, founded in 1835 in the parish of Whitwick and now in that of Charley. The abbey was the first permanent monastery to be founded in England since the Reformation and is the sole Trappist house in England.
The original site was to be in Argentina, where there was already a new monastery founded by the monks of the Trappist abbey near to Wrentham. That site did not work out, however, so the abbess, Mother Angela, O.C.S.O., asked the Trappists abbots of the United States for possible sites.
A little oasis of 12 acres (4.9 ha) in the heart of the city at Cleveland's highest point offers a view of Cleveland's west side and downtown during the fall and winter. The monastery consists of the abbey church and an east and west wing. The west wing is the cloister which was dedicated in 1952.
The Congregation of St. Cecilia, commonly known as the Nashville Dominicans, is a religious institute of the Roman Catholic Church located in Nashville, Tennessee.It is a member of the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, one of the two organizations which represent women religious in the United States (the other is the Leadership Conference of Women Religious).
Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death.