Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani

Gethsemani Abbey

The Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani (Latin Abbatia BM de Gethsemani ; English Abbey of Gethsemani ) is an American monastery in New Haven , near Bardstown (Kentucky) in Nelson County , Kentucky . It belongs to the Archdiocese of Louisville .

history

The French Trappist Abbey of Melleray , beset by the February Revolution of 1848 , founded the monastery Our Lady of Gethsemani ("Our Lady of the Garden of Gethsemane ") in Trappist, Kentucky (on the trail of the failed founding of Casey Creek by Urbain Guillet ), which was elevated to an abbey in 1851 . It was the first American monastery to survive to this day. Notable authors among the monks were Raymond Flanagan (1903–1990), Thomas Merton and Chrysogonus Waddell .

The monastery church Basilica of the Blessed Virgin of Gethsemane dates from 1866. Pope Pius XII. elevated it to a minor basilica in 1949 .

Priors and abbots

Eutropius Proust (1848-1859)
Benedict Berger (1861-1889)
Edward Chaix-Bourbon (1890-1896)
Benedict Dupont (1896–1898)
Edmond Obrecht (1898–1935)
Frederic Dunne (1935-1948)
James Fox (1948-1967)
Flavian Burns (1968-1973)
Timothy Kelly (1973-2000)
Damian Thompson (2000-2008)
Elias Dietz (2008–)

Foundations

1944: Conyers Trappist Abbey (Conyers, Georgia)
1947: Huntsville Trappist Abbey (Huntsville, Utah, east of Ogden)
1949: Mepkin Trappist Abbey (Moncks Corner, Berkeley County , South Carolina)
1952: Trappist Genesee Abbey (Piffard, Genesee Valley, New York, near Geneseo)
1955: New Clairvaux Vina Trappist Abbey (Vina, California, between Red Bluff and Chico)

literature

Dianne Aprile: The Abbey of Gethsemani. Place of peace and paradox. 150 years in the life of America's oldest Trappist monastery . Trout Lily Press, Louisville, Kentucky, 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Basilica of the Blessed Virgin of Gethsemani at gcatholic.org

37.664607 -85.528818Coordinates: 37 ° 39 ′ 52.6 " N , 85 ° 31 ′ 43.7" W.

[1] Basilica of the Blessed Virgin of Gethsemani at gcatholic.org