Prairies Monastery
Monastery Prairies (lat. Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Prata ;. French Abbaye Cistercienne Notre-Dame des Prairies ) is a Canadian Abbey Trappist . The monastery was located in Saint-Norbert, Manitoba , south of Winnipeg from 1892 to 1978 , and was relocated to Holland, Manitoba (southeast of Spruce Woods Provincial Park ) in 1978.
history
Monastery of Our Lady of the Prairies in 1892 by Abbey Bellefontaine (in response to the hostility to religion of the Third Republic established) south of Winnipeg in Saint-Norbert and 1902 the priory , and in 1955 the abbey raised. In 1960 the monastery received reinforcements from New Melleray Abbey . The monks built up an agricultural production facility, but in 1978 they moved to the greater solitude of Holland (125 km west of Winnipeg) before the urbanization that followed them through the provincial capital Winnipeg. The monastery is bilingual English / French.
The buildings destroyed by arson in Saint-Norbert in 1983 are now part of a monastery park (Trappist Monastery Provincial Park / Parc provincial du Monastère-des-Trappistes) and house an art center.
Superiors, priors and abbots
- Louis de Bourmont (1893-1906; 1920-1923)
- Jean-Baptiste Gaudin (19061910)
- Théophile Rahard (1911-1913)
- Paul Pelletier (1913-1920)
- Dominique Garant (1923-1936)
- Léonard Saint-Jean (1936–1945)
- Lucien Saint-Pierre (1945-1953)
- Fulgence Fortier (1953-1969)
- Marcel Carbotte (1969-2014)