Oka Abbey
Abbey Oka (lat. Abbatia BM de Lacu ;. French Abbaye Notre-Dame du Lac ) is a 1881-2009 existing former Canadian monastery of Trappist monks in Oka , Deux-Montagnes , Quebec , west of Montreal .
history
Notre-Dame du Lac Abbey (Madonna of the Lake, also: Lac ) was founded in 1881 by Bellefontaine Abbey . The original wooden structure (burned down in 1929) was replaced by a stone structure in 1890, which burned down in 1902 and 1915. Only the fourth building has survived to this day. The monks founded a successful agricultural school in 1893 (until 1962) and produced an Oka brand Trappist cheese until 1974 . In 2009 they moved to the newly built Val Notre-Dame monastery . The new monastery name is Val Notre-Dame .
Foundations
- Mistassini Monastery (1892)
- Notre Dame Monastery (1977–1998)
Superiors, priors and abbots
- Guillaume Lehaye (1881-1886)
- Antoine Oger (1886–1913; first abbot from 1892)
- Pacôme Gaboury (1913–1964; abbot for 51 years)
- Fidèle Sauvageau (1964–1990)
- Yvon Moreau (1990-2008)
literature
- Camille Antonio Doucet, La Trappe d'Oka. Son histoire depuis sa fondation, en 1881, jusqu'à nos jours , Montréal, Presses Elite, 1979.
- (English) The Trappists of Oka 1881–1981 , Oka, 1981.