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In 1754 she had entered a convent of English-speaking Discalced Carmelites in modern-day Belgium and was elected prioress there twenty years later. In 1790 she was offered land in Maryland and returned to establish what became known as Mount Carmel Monastery in Port Tobacco. In the 19th century, the congregation relocated to Baltimore, Maryland.
The Mt. Carmel Monastery is a historic monastery located in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, United States. It comprises a two-part frame house, with the main block constructed around 1790 and restored in 1936–37.
She was the first and last prioress at Port Tobacco. The following year the nuns abandoned the property because they were ordered to move to the larger city of Baltimore, across the Chesapeake Bay. [5] The nuns' building in Port Tobacco, Mount Carmel Monastery, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [4]
The reverend mother has denied the accusations. She oversaw a monastery of Carmelite nuns in Arlington.
Carmelite nuns have rejected the bishop’s authority. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
Two of his sisters—Susanna (Sister Mary Eleanora) and Ann Teresa (Sister Mary Aloysia)—also went to Hoogstraet to become Carmelite nuns. [1] In 1790 Sister Bernardina returned to what was now the United States and established a Carmelite convent in the village of Port Tobacco, Maryland, where she had been given land for this purpose.
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North of Port Tobacco on Mt. Carmel Rd. 38°33′21″N 77°00′01″W / 38.555833°N 77.000278°W / 38.555833; -77.000278 ( Mt. Carmel Monastery Port Tobacco