St. Emma Monastery

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Saint Emma Monastery is a Benedictine monastery in Greensburg (Pennsylvania) in the USA , which belongs to the Federation of Bavarian Benedictine Abbeys .

history

The monastery was founded by the Bavarian Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburg in Eichstätt . In 1931, under the leadership of M. Leonarda Fitz OSB, ten sisters came from Bavaria to Pennsylvania (USA) to support the Benedictine monks of the Archabbey of St. Vincent in Latrobe , Westmoreland County , who were in distress due to the Great Depression in 1929 . In 1943/1944, the sisters acquired land to found their own monastery. In 1954 a retreat house was built and the monastery was built from 1961 to 1963. Since January 2010, St. Emma has been an independent conventual priory.

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