Assomption Monastery
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 19.5 " N , 65 ° 26 ′ 24.7" W.
Assomption Monastery (Latin Abbatia Beate Mariae de Assumptione ; French Abbaye Notre-Dame del'Assomption ; English Assumption Abbey ) is a Canadian Trappist Abbey in Rogersville (New Brunswick) , Archdiocese of Moncton .
history
When around 1900 the monasteries in France threatened to be dissolved by the law separating church and state , the Lyon-Vaise monastery emigrated to Canada in 1904 and founded Notre-Dame de l'Assomption ( Assumption of Mary) monastery in Rogersville , three kilometers away from the Trappist monastery of Calvaire , founded in 1902 , whose community had prepared the buildings for the nuns. After the church was built in 1922, the monastery was raised to the rank of abbey in 1928 . The current convent building was built in 1950. In 1970 a guest house was added. The nuns live for the most part from the production of hosts .
Superiors, prioresses and abbesses
- Marie Julie Pierron (1904–1921)
- Marie Joseph Barrieau (1921-1939; 1948-1960)
- Marie de Jésus Savoie (1939–1948)
- Marie Jeanne Richard (1960–1978)
- Jean-Marie Howe (1978-1999)
- Alfreda Gaudet (1999-2004)
- Rita Rodrigue (2004-2004)