Berryville Trappist Abbey

The Trappist Abbey Berryville (Latin Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Sancta Cruce ; English Our Lady of the Holy Cross Abbey ) has been an American monastery in Berryville, Clarke County (Virginia) , Diocese of Arlington , since 1950 .

history

The Trappist Spencer Abbey , which in 1950 was unable to accommodate all homeless monks after the fire at Our Lady of the Valley Abbey in Rhode Island , was founded that same year on the Shenandoah River in Berryville, east of Winchester (Virginia) , 90 kilometers west of Washington, DC , the daughter monastery Our Lady of the Holy Cross ("Heiligenkreuz"), which was elevated to an abbey in 1958 .

Superiors and abbots

• Owen Hoey (1950-1952)
• John Holohan (1952-1956)
• Hugues McKiernan (1956–1964)
• Thomas Porter (1964–1966)
• Edward McCorkell (1966-1980)
• Flavian Burns (1980-1984)
• Marc Delery (1984–1990)
• Flavian Burns (1990-1996)
• Benedict Simmonds (1996-1998)
• Robert Barnes (1998-)

See also

List of monasteries # Trappists

Web links

• Website of the monastery with a detailed history of the monastery, English
• Page of the abbey on the Trappist homepage
• Page of the abbey on the homepage of the American Trappists

Coordinates: 39 ° 8 ′ 45.2 "  N , 77 ° 52 ′ 36.8"  W.