Dallas Cistercian Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey Dallas (lat. Abbatia BMV de Dallas ;. English Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Dallas ) is since 1955 one American monastery of Cistercian in Irving (Texas) , Dallas County , Texas .
history
At the invitation of Bishop Thomas Kiely Gorman , the monks who fled from the Hungarian monastery Zirc to the American monastery Spring Bank went to Dallas in 1954 to build the monastery Our Lady of Dallas and the Catholic University of Dallas . The monastery became a priory in 1961 and an abbey in 1963 . It belongs to the Zircer Cistercian Congregation . The monks run the Cistercian Preparatory School in Irving (a so-called "prep school", an elite school that prepares for admission to a college ) with around 350 students. Among the better-known members of the monastery was the Cistercian historian Louis Julius Lekai .
Superiors, priors and abbots
- 1955–1988: Anselm Nagy (1915–1988)
- 1988–2012: Denis Farkasfalvy (* 1936)
- since 2012: Peter Verhalen (* 1955)
See also
literature
- Louis Julius Lekai: Hungarian Cistercians in America. In: American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia Records 79, 1968, pp. 232-242.
Web links
- Abbey website, English
- Mention of Dallas in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis, without information
- Nagy, Anselm, in: Biographia Cisterciensis
- Farkasfalvy, Denis, in: Biographia Cisterciensis
- Biographical note on Abbot Peter Verhalen, English
Coordinates: 32 ° 51 '14 " N , 96 ° 55' 20.3" W.