Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw Totally Explained

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Nunraw Abbey or Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw is a working Trappist (Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae) monastery. It was the first Cistercian house to be founded in Scotland since the Reformation. Founded in 1946 by monks from Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Ireland, and inaugurated as an Abbey in 1948, it nestles at the foot of the Lammermuir Hills on the southern edge of East Lothian. The estate of the abbey is technically called White Castle after an early hill-fort on the land.

History

Originally owned by the Cistercian Nuns of Haddington, the area that they settled becoming known as Nunraw (lit. Nun's Row). The Nunnery of Haddington was founded by Ada de Warenne, Countess of Huntingdon and daughter of the Earl of Surrey, soon after the death of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and the small evidence that's available suggests that Nunraw was a Grange of that convent.

List of Abbots

The modern establishment has had three Lord Abbots since its inception:

Father Michael Sherry, O.C.S.O. (d. 2003) Superior of the foundation between 1946 and its inauguration in 1948.
Dom Columban Mulcahy, O.C.S.O.(1900-1971), Lord Abbot between 1948-1969
Dom Donald McGlynn, O.C.S.O., Abbot-emeritus and Lord Abbot between 1969-2003, Chief of the Igbo tribe in Nigeria.
Dom Raymond Jaconelli, O.C.S.O., Lord Abbot from 2003

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