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The Trappist monks of the Tre Fontane Abbey raise the lambs whose wool is used to make the pallia of new metropolitan archbishops. The pope blesses the pallia on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul ; the metropolitan archbishops receive those pallia in a separate ceremony within their home dioceses from the hands of the apostolic nuncio, who ...
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.
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.
Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death.
Interior of the abbey church. The Our Lady of Joy Abbey is a monastery at Tai Shui Hang (大水坑), on Lantau Island in the New Territories, Hong Kong. [1] [2] It is home to a number of Roman Catholic monks of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, or Trappists.
St. Joseph's Abbey is a Trappist monastery in Spencer, Massachusetts. The community of monks was founded in 1825 in Nova Scotia, Canada. In the early 20th Century, they moved to Rhode Island, and then in 1950 decided to move to Spencer. [1] The monks produce jams and liturgical vestments in order to financially support their way of life.
The monks first came to Ava, Missouri from New Melleray Abbey in Iowa in 1950 to establish the monastic life there. They run a successful business selling fruitcakes. [1] After the number of monks continued to decrease for decades, the Trappist monks gave their monastery to a group of Cistercians from Vietnam in 2019.
Trappist monk praying in his cell. The Monastery of Saint Anthony in Egypt, built over the tomb of Saint Anthony , the "Father of Christian Monasticism" Monasticism in Christianity, which provides the origins of the words "monk" and "monastery", comprises several diverse forms of religious living.