Trappist convent of Santa Rita

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The Santa Rita Trappist Convent has been an American monastery since 1972 in Sonoita (Arizona) , Santa Cruz County (Arizona) , Diocese of Tucson .

history

The Trappist Abbey of Wrentham , the first Cistercian abbey in the United States , founded Santa Rita Abbey (after Rita von Cascia ) in 1972 as a second daughter monastery 50 km south of Tucson at 1500 meters , which was promoted to a priory in 1978 .

Superiors and Prioresses

  • Cecile Jubinville (1972-1990)
  • Beverly Aitken (1990-2000)
  • Miriam Pollard (2000–2012)
  • Victoria Murray (2012-)

See also

literature

Works of the Prioress Miriam Pollard

  • Acceptance. Passage into Hope , Michael Glazier, Wilmington, Delaware, 1987.
  • The listening God , Michael Glazier, Wilmington, Delaware, 1989.
  • The other face of love. Dialogues with the prison experience of Albert Speer , Crossroad Pub. Co., New York 1996.
  • Neither be afraid, and other poems , Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2000.
  • 'Natural magic and dire property'. Shakespeare's use of folktale characteristics and the mediation of religious subversion , PhD dissertation, La Trobe University 2009.

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Coordinates: 31 ° 44 ′ 29.1 ″  N , 110 ° 41 ′ 46.1 ″  W.