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Community of Jesus, a Benedictine monastery located in Orleans. Glastonbury Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Hingham. Mount Saint Mary's Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery in Wrentham. Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican monastery in Cambridge. St. Benedict Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Harvard.
Pages in category "Benedictine monasteries in the United States" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The monasteries, being landowners who never died and whose property was therefore never divided among inheritors (as happened to the land of neighboring secular land owners), tended to accumulate and keep considerable lands and properties - which aroused resentment and made them vulnerable to governments confiscating their properties at times of religious or political upheaval, whether to fund ...
Ss. Mary and Martha Monastery, Wagener, South Carolina. Mother Thekla. Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery, Otego, New York. Mother Raphaela. Our Lady of the Sign Monastery (Nuns of New Skete), Cambridge, New York. Mother Cecelia. New Skete Monasteries; Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Mother Christophora.
Benedictine monasteries in the United States (1 C, 40 P) Pages in category "Benedictine monasteries in North America" This category contains only the following page.
These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the dissolution of the monasteries. The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it.
Lists of monasteries cover monasteries, buildings or complexes of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). The lists are organized by country or territory, by denomination, by order and by form.
Christian monks did not live in monasteries at first; rather, they began by living alone as solitaries, as the word monos might suggest. As more people took on the lives of monks, living alone in the wilderness, they started to come together and model themselves after the original monks nearby.