Willow Springs Cistercian Monastery
The Cistercian monastery Willow Springs since 1958 an American monastery of Cistercian in Willow Springs, Cook County (Illinois) , Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago .
history
Father Hubert Kostrzański (1913–2002), a monk (and later abbot) of the Polish monastery Szczyrzyc in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship who fled to the United States in 1946 , founded the dependent priory of Mary Mother of the Church in Willow Springs (Illinois), west in 1958 as a Polish mission station Chicago . In 1976 he was followed by Grzegorz Szydlowski (1938–2003), who began building a new church and a new monastery in 2001 (completed in 2004). The current prior is (since 2012) Michał Blicharski. For the numerous residents of Chicago of Polish origin, the monastery is an important meeting place, where, among other things, the memory of Podhale is cultivated.
Web links
- Mention of Willow Springs in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Official mention of the monastery, Italian
- Website of the monastery, Polish
- Report on Polish homeland care in Willow Springs Monastery, English, illustrated
- Newspaper article about Willow Springs Monastery, English
- Obituary Grzegorz Szydlowski, English
- Kostrzański, Hubert, in: Biographia Cisterciensis