Abbaye Cistercienne Notre-Dame des Prairies Ancient
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Abbaye Cistercienne Notre-Dame des Prairies Ancient

Also known as Abbey of Our Lady of the Prairies

Saint-Norbert, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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  • Get directions 100, Rue des Ruines du Monastere MB R3V
    Coordinates: 49.75693, -97.15412
  • Cemetery ID: 2566646

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1892 - 1978

Abbaye Trappiste Notre-Dame des Prairies (ancien)
Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of the Prairies (former)

Monsignor Ritchot, parish priest of Saint-Norbert and Archbishop Taché of Saint-Boniface invited five Cisterciians of the Trappist Order from the Abbey of Bellefontaine, France, to establish a monastery here in 1892. The community was named Notre-Dame des Prairies. The Romanesque Revival church was built In 1903-04 and the connecting monastic wing in 1905. The guesthouse was erected in 1912 on the foundations of the first church building. This self-sufficient monastery included milking barns, stables, a cheese house, apiary, sawmill, and cannery.

By 1978, the Trappists had moved their abbey to a site near Holland, Manitoba, to protect their contemplative life from the effects of urban sprawl. Fire gutted the vacated church and residential wing five years later.


1892 - 1978

Abbaye Trappiste Notre-Dame des Prairies (ancien)
Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of the Prairies (former)

Monsignor Ritchot, parish priest of Saint-Norbert and Archbishop Taché of Saint-Boniface invited five Cisterciians of the Trappist Order from the Abbey of Bellefontaine, France, to establish a monastery here in 1892. The community was named Notre-Dame des Prairies. The Romanesque Revival church was built In 1903-04 and the connecting monastic wing in 1905. The guesthouse was erected in 1912 on the foundations of the first church building. This self-sufficient monastery included milking barns, stables, a cheese house, apiary, sawmill, and cannery.

By 1978, the Trappists had moved their abbey to a site near Holland, Manitoba, to protect their contemplative life from the effects of urban sprawl. Fire gutted the vacated church and residential wing five years later.

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