5 Awe-inspiring Catholic sites not to miss in Kentucky
Posted on March 21, 2025, by Loretto Community
Posted March 3, 2025 by Aleteia.
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The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani is a Trappist monastery, home to monks who are Cistercians of the Strict Observance. It is the Proto-Abbey of the New World, the motherhouse of all Trappist and Trappistine monasteries in the United States.
Located in the Kentucky Holy Land, just south of the Bourbon Capital of the World, Bardstown, members of the Trappist community arrived late in 1848 just in time to celebrate Christmas in their new home. “Gethsemani,” as it was named by the Sisters of Loretto who previously owned the land, became an abbey in 1851.
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