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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.
The monastery is situated on a working farm of 2,000 acres (810 ha). The monks support themselves and the abbey through its store, Gethsemani Farms, offering handmade fruitcake and bourbon fudge (both onsite and by mail order). Gethsemani was the home of Trappist monk, social activist and author Thomas Merton from 1941 until his death in 1968.
At its peak, Milstead and Conyers had a private railroad that delivered products, such as cotton, from the mill to Conyers for shipping to the textile mills. In the 1960s, the mill closed. In 1944, a Trappist monastery (a Catholic order), Abbey of the Holy Spirit, was established south of the city by Dom Frederic Dunne. The Protestant community ...
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 ...
July 5, 1990 (NW of the central business district, roughly along Main St., Milstead Ave., and Railroad St. Conyers: 4: Dial Mill: Dial Mill: April 6, 1978
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. Assumption Abbey: Trappist 1950
Marmion Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Aurora. [35] Monastery of the Holy Cross, a Benedictine monastery located in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago. [36] New Gračanica Monastery, an Eastern Orthodox monastery located in Third Lake. [37] Passionist Fathers Monastery, a historic Roman Catholic monastery located in Chicago. [38]
In particular, the number of Trappist monasteries throughout the world has more than doubled over the past 60 years: from 82 in 1940 to 127 in 1970, and 169 at the beginning of the 21st century. [25] In 1940, there were six Trappist monasteries in Asia and the Pacific, only one Trappist monastery in Africa, and none in Latin America. [25]