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Nuns (Trappist) 1962 Whitethorn, California: Founded from the Cistercian monastery of Nazareth in Belgium. Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey: Nuns (Trappist) 1964 Dubuque, Iowa: Daughter-house of Mt. St. Mary Abbey in Wrentham, Massachusetts. Santa Rita Abbey: Nuns (Trappist) 1972 Sonoita, Arizona: Our Lady of the Angels Monastery: Nuns (Trappist)
The monastery is situated on a working farm of 2,000 acres (810 ha). The monks support themselves and the abbey through its store, Gethsemani Farms, offering handmade fruitcake and bourbon fudge (both onsite and by mail order). Gethsemani was the home of Trappist monk, social activist and author Thomas Merton from 1941 until his death in 1968.
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 ]
Entrance to New Clairvaux Abbey. 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.
Pages in category "Trappist monasteries in the United States" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Tre Fontane Abbey (English: Three Fountains Abbey; Latin: Abbatia trium fontium ad Aquas Salvias), or the Abbey of Saints Vincent and Anastasius, is a Roman Catholic abbey in Rome, held by monks of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, better known as Trappists.
Mariawald Abbey is the only extant men's Trappist monastery in Germany. [5] The monks follow the Rule of St. Benedict and the constitution of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance. [6] Visitors can also stay a few days in the abbey's guesthouse, but the parts of the monastery used by the monastic community cannot be visited. [7]
This community of Trappist monks was initially founded in Fez in 1988 on request of the bishop of Rabat, Hubert Michon, after he had been inspired by the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria. They were given as home the former hotel "Bellevue Hotel" which had been built at the beginning of the 20th century and lay mostly in ...