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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.
Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Huntsville which closed in 2017. [86] Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Monastery, in Holladay. The Carmelite nuns originally took residence downtown Salt Lake City, in December 1952 and then moved to Holladay, three years later.
Since most of the Zirc monks had fled Hungary for the US in 1954, Fr. Denis was sent to Irving, Texas in order to teach at the Our Lady of Dallas monastery school. Since the need for math teachers was great, he studied for and received a master's degree at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
Valley of Our Lady Monastery Nuns (Common Observance) 1957 Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin: The first Cistercian nunnery in the United States, founded by nuns from the Swiss Abbey of Frauenthal. Our Lady of Dallas Abbey: Common Observance 1958 Irving, Texas: Founded from the Cistercian monastery of Zirc in Hungary.
Zirc monks began immigrating, with many of them ending up in Dallas, where they created a new abbey and found leadership and teaching roles at the University of Dallas. Cistercian monks had been involved in secondary education in Europe since the 18th century, and by 1962, they founded the Cistercian School in Dallas.
The monastery, where some 30 nuns once prayed the rosary in isolation from the city outside, closed in December 2013. Its last three residents moved to a similar facility in Elmira, New York.
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