Wrentham Trappist Abbey

The Trappistinnenabtei Wrentham since 1949, a US-based Abbey in Wrentham, Norfolk County (Massachusetts) , Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston .

history

The Irish monastery Glencairn founded in 1949 in Massachusetts on the border with Rhode Island , not far from the Trappist monastery Our Lady of the Valley ("Mariental", later: Trappist Abbey Spencer ), Mount St. Mary's Abbey ("Marienberg"), the first Cistercian convent in the United States , which was elevated to an abbey in 1950 and founded three daughter monasteries by 1987.

Superiors and Abbesses

• Bernard O'Donnell (1949–1952)
• Angela Norton (1952-1986)
• Agnes Day (1986-2008)
• Maureen McCabe (2008–)

Foundations

• 1964: Mississippi Trappist Abbey (Iowa)
• 1972: Santa Rita Trappist Convent (Arizona)
• 1987: Crozet Trappist Monastery (Virginia)

See also

• List of monasteries # Trappist women

Web links

• Abbey website
• Page of the abbey in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
• Page of the abbey on the Trappist homepage
• Page of the abbey on the homepage of the American Trappists

Coordinates: 42 ° 2 '25.4 "  N , 71 ° 23' 38.2"  W.