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The charterhouse in 2006. The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration is the only Carthusian monastery in North America, located on Mt. Equinox, in Sandgate, Vermont.It was founded in 1960 under the initiative of Fr. Thomas Verner Moore and completed in 1970.
This is a list of Carthusian monasteries, or charterhouses, containing both extant and dissolved monasteries of the Carthusians (also known as the Order of Saint Bruno) for monks and nuns, arranged by location under their present countries. Also listed are ancillary establishments (distilleries, printing houses) and the "houses of refuge" used ...
The Carthusians, also known as the Order of Carthusians (Latin: Ordo Cartusiensis), are a Latin enclosed religious order of the Catholic Church. The order was founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns. The order has its own rule, called the Statutes, and their life combines both eremitical and cenobitic monasticism.
[8] [9] But as of his death in 1969, Davidson had completed transfer of all his Equinox property to an especially austere Catholic monastic order called the Carthusians, and paid for building their Charterhouse of the Transfiguration monastery (opened 1970) in the upper hollow at an elevation of 2,100 feet. [10]
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In 1947, Moore traveled to Spain to enter the Carthusians. In 1950, he returned to the United States to co-found the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration in Sandgate, Vermont, the first charterhouse in the country. In 1960, he returned to Spain, where he continued to live as a Carthusian for the rest of his life. He died in Burgos, Spain on June ...
Grande Chartreuse. A charterhouse (French: chartreuse; German: Kartause; Italian: certosa; Portuguese: cartuxa; Spanish: cartuja) is a monastery of Carthusian monks. The English word is derived by phono-semantic matching from the French word chartreuse [1] and it is therefore sometimes misunderstood to indicate that the houses were created by charter, a grant of legal rights by a high authority.
The Carthusian martyrs are those members of the Carthusian monastic order who have been persecuted and killed because of their Christian faith and their adherence to the Catholic religion. As an enclosed order the Carthusians do not, on principle, put forward causes for their members, though causes have been promoted by others on their behalf.