Monastery is a small community in the

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province of

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, located in

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at the junction of

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and 4. St. Augustine's Monastery was located in Monastery, replacing an earlier

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monastery. Our Lady of Grace Monastery, an Augustinian monastery, is now located in Monastery. Monastery railway station was operated by

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and later by

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, but has not been served by passenger trains since 1990.

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