Genesee Trappist Abbey
The Trappist Genesee Abbey (Latin Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Genesse ; English Abbey of the Genesse ) has been an American monastery in Piffard, Livingston County (New York) , Diocese of Rochester , since 1952 .
history
The Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani founded the subsidiary Our Lady of the Genesee Abbey in 1952 (south of Rochester ) in the valley of the Genesee River , which was elevated to an abbey in 1953 . In 1974, Henri JM Nouwen, a friend of Abbot John Eudes Bamberger, spent seven months in the monastery and wrote a book about it that was translated into numerous languages.
Superiors and abbots
- Gerard McGinley (1951–1955)
- Walter Helmstetter (1955–1963)
- Jerome Burke (1964–1971)
- John Eudes Bamberger (1971-2001)
- John Denburger (2001-2012)
- Gerard D'Souza (2012–)
Foundations
- 1977: Novo Mundo Trappist Abbey , Brazil
- 1978 (adopted) Awhum Trappist Abbey , Nigeria
- 2006 (adopted) Trappist Monastery of Illah , Nigeria
See also
literature
- Henri Nouwen: I listened to the silence. Seven months in the Trappist monastery . Herder, Freiburg i. Br./Basel/Wien 1978 (numerous editions, most recently 2012).
Web links
- Website of the monastery with a short biography of all deceased monks and a detailed description of the foundations
- Page of the abbey on the Trappist homepage
- Page of the abbey on the homepage of the American Trappists
Coordinates: 42 ° 50 ′ 39.1 ″ N , 77 ° 51 ′ 51.4 ″ W.