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The Abbey of Our Lady of Dallas is a Cistercian monastery founded in 1955 in Irving, Texas.The monks of the abbey operate Cistercian Preparatory School for boys. As of 2018, it is currently the only Cistercian monastery left in North America, alongside the Canadian Abbey of Our Lady of Nazareth [] in Rougemont, Quebec.
The massacre took place on October 5, 1838, near Larissa, Texas, in the northwestern part of Cherokee County. There were eighteen victims, including Isaac Killough, Sr., and his extended family (viz. the families of four sons and two daughters). They had immigrated to the Republic of Texas from Talladega County, Alabama, in 1837. [2] [3]
Huntsville Unit, the location of the State of Texas execution chamber. The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 20 February 2025.
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
The Alamo is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States.It was the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, a pivotal event of the Texas Revolution in which American folk heroes James Bowie and Davy Crockett were killed. [4]
The Alamo was operated by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas until July 2015, when custodianship was turned over to the Texas General Land Office. [ 3 ] On July 5, 2015, the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, along with the Alamo Mission in San Antonio , was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site .
The shooting happened at the Wat Promkunaram Buddhist temple during the early hours of August 10. [3] The victims were all linked to the temple and either Thais or of Thai descent: the abbot, Pairuch Kanthong; five monks, Surichai Anuttaro, Boochuay Chaiyarach, Chalerm Chantapim, Siang Ginggaeo, and Somsak Sopha; a nun, Foy Sripanpasert; her nephew, Matthew Miller, who was a novice monk; and a ...
Monastery death (German: Klostertod; French: mort civile des religieux) [1] was a form of civil death – the loss of legal capacity of living persons – known to common and civil law. The monastery death happened in some jurisdictions when a person entered a monastery or nunnery and professed into consecrated life .