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The monastery at daybreak. The Monastery of the Holy Spirit was founded on March 21, 1944, by 20 monks from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The Archdiocese of Atlanta and silent film star Colleen Moore donated 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2) of land, and the first monks lived in a barn while they built (by themselves) what would become known as the "pine board" monastery.
Monastery of the Holy Spirit: Trappist 1944 Conyers, Georgia Mount Saint Mary's Abbey: Nuns (Trappist) 1949 Wrentham, Massachusetts: Daughter house of St. Mary's Abbey (Glencairn, Waterford). Mepkin Abbey: Trappist 1949 Moncks Corner, South Carolina: Lumber, egg production, and dairy in the past. Now they produce shiitake and oyster mushrooms.
Gethsemani is the oldest Trappist monastery in the country that is still operating. [citation needed] Following the Rule of Saint Benedict, the Trappist monks live a contemplative life of faithful prayer and work. The monastery is situated on a working farm of 2,000 acres (810 ha).
Paul Prather: Brother Paul Quenon of the Abbey of Gethsemani will take part in the Kentucky Book Festival on Nov. 2, talking about his latest book “A Matter of the Heart: A Monk’s Journal 1970 ...
Basket Creek Cemetery Lott Cemetery. Andersonville National Historic Site; Basket Creek Cemetery; Behavior Cemetery; Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, made famous by the Bird Girl sculpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death.