Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas [SEP] religious order
Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas
The Abbey of Our Lady of Atlas (; ) is a Roman Catholic monastery of Trappists, inaugurated on March 7, 1938 in Tibhirine, close to Médéa, in Algeria.
The abbey became more known in 1996, when seven monks were kidnapped from the monastery, during the Algerian Civil War, and were killed. The movie "Of Gods and Men", released in 2010, tells the events that led to their deaths.
History.
History Founding.
In 1843,
Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity
The Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity was a Trappist Cistercian monastery in Huntsville, Utah. They were Roman Catholic contemplative monks of an enclosed religious order known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO).
History.
The abbey was founded in 1947 as a daughter house of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky at the invitation of Bishop Hunt of Salt Lake City. . The monks briefly used temporary World War II barracks which had