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His general history of the Cistercian Order (subtitled in a manner typical for Lekai Ideals and Reality) was the standard work for decades, going into several reprints and translations. A stroke suffered in 1981 made him unable to speak or write until his death 13 years later.
The Cistercians (/ s ɪ ˈ s t ɜːr ʃ ən z /), officially the Order of Cistercians (Latin: (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly influential Bernard ...
He was born in Detroit, Michigan.As a young man, John Robert Sommerfeldt wanted to become a monk at the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani, but left because of poor health.He enrolled at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1951 and received all his degrees there, culminating with the doctorate in 1960.
Fr. José Manuel Gallegos, [179] [180] Democratic Party politician and part of the History of New Mexico. Fr. James Gower, [181] [182] Peace activist and co-founder of the College of the Atlantic. Msgr. Peter Guilday, [183] [184] A noted historian of the Catholic Church's history. Msgr. George G. Higgins, advocate for labor rights.
The Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, founded in 1928, was an American monastery of monks of the Cistercian Common Observance in Wisconsin. The abbey was the first monastery of the Order to be established in the United States. The community was closed in 2011.
Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C. 2018. In search of a lasting home. The story of the Cistercians in Texas. Abbey and school. Cistercian Abbey Our Lady of Dallas, Irving, Texas 2019. A Biblical Path to the Triune God: Jesus, Paul, and the Revelation of the Trinity. Edited by Thomas Esposito.
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.
Chrysogonus Waddell OCSO (March 1, 1930 – November 23, 2008) [1] was an American Roman Catholic convert and theologian. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani , Kentucky , he was an accomplished organist, liturgist, historian, and a scholar of chant and Cistercian liturgy.