Nunraw Monastery
Monastery Nunraw (lat. Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Nunraw ) is a Scottish Trappist - abbey at Garvald (East Lothian) , south of Haddington, Diocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh .
history
The Irish monastery of Roscrea founded the monastery of Sancta Maria in 1946 as the first Scottish Cistercian monastery since the Reformation ( raised to an abbey in 1947 ). The monastery began in the Nunraw Old Abbey mansion before all new buildings were built in 1962.
Superiors and abbots
- Michael Sherry (1946–1947)
- Columban Mulcahy (1947-1969)
- Donald McGlynn (1969-2003)
- Raymond Jaconelli (2003-2009)
- Mark Caira (2009-2015)
literature
- Bernard Peugniez , Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne, Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012, p. 948.