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The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani is a Catholic monastery in the United States near Bardstown, Kentucky, in Nelson County. The abbey is part of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae), better known as the Trappists. Founded on December 21, 1848, and raised to an abbey in 1851, Gethsemani ...
The monastery at daybreak. The Monastery of the Holy Spirit was founded on March 21, 1944, by 20 monks from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The Archdiocese of Atlanta and silent film star Colleen Moore donated 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2) of land, and the first monks lived in a barn while they built (by themselves) what would become known as the "pine board" monastery.
On August 2, 1950, he entered the novitiate at the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani and made solemn vows there on November 1, 1955; his name in religion was Chrysogonus. Priestly ordination followed on May 31, 1958, after which Fr. Chrysogonus was sent for doctoral studies to the Roman Benedictine Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm . [ 2 ]
He entered the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1941 where his writings and letters to world leaders became some of the most widely read spiritual and social works of the 20th century. Merton's widely read works include his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain , as well as New Seeds of Contemplation and No Man is an Island .
Among other goods, they sold bread, multigrain cereal, creamed honey, and handmade clocks in the gift shop. [17] The abbey had 32 monks when it was founded, and at one point it held 84 monks and novices. [18] As the number of monks at the abbey dwindled and the average age among those remaining increased, its industries were gradually discontinued.
Thomas Merton's hermitage (interior) at the Abbey of Gethsemani. Below is a bibliography of published works written by Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk of The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani. Several of the works listed here have been published posthumously. The works are listed under each category by date of publication.
The Thomas Merton Center is the home of the largest collection of the works of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani.It is located on the second floor of the W.L. Lyons Brown Library at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
On December 10, 1941, Thomas Merton arrived at the Abbey of Gethsemani and spent three days at the monastery guest house, waiting for acceptance into the order. On December 13 he was accepted into the monastery as a postulant by Frederic Dunne, Gethsemani's abbot since 1935, and given the religious name Mary Louis. Merton had a severe cold from ...