Mount Saint Mary's Abbey

Mount Saint Mary's Abbey

Monastery information
Order	Cistercian
Established	1949
Mother house	The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani
Site
Location	Wrentham, Massachusetts  United States
Coordinates	42°02′25″N 71°23′38″W / 42.040385°N 71.393945°W / 42.040385; -71.393945Coordinates: 42°02′25″N 71°23′38″W / 42.040385°N 71.393945°W / 42.040385; -71.393945

Mount Saint Mary’s Abbey is a monastic community of some fifty Trappistine nuns in Wrentham, Massachusetts. The more complete, formal name of the Order is the Cistercians of the Strict Observance (O.C.S.O.), whose founding at Cîteaux, France dates back to 1098. This community follows the reforms of the Cistercian Order as established by the 17th-century Abbot Armand de Rancé at the Abbey of La Grande Trappe.

This community was founded in 1949 by nuns of an Irish monastery, St. Mary’s Abbey, located in Glencairn, County Waterford. It was the first community of Cistercians nuns in the United States. The foundation was so successful that, by the mid-1950s, all of the Irish nuns had been recalled to their original community.

Following the standard need of self-support, this community developed as their main means of income a line of candy for which they are noted.^[1]. Recently the abbey had some wind turbines built, as part of their effort to help in their fuel needs and at being better stewards of the environment.

New communities of the Order were founded by this abbey in Iowa (Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey, 1964), Arizona (1972) and Virginia (1987).

References

1. ^ http://shop6.mailordercentral.com/trappistinecandy

External links

• http://abbey.msmabbey.org Official website