Nunraw Abbey or Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw is a working
Trappist
The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance ( la, Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae, abbreviated as OCSO) and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a ...
(''Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae'')
monastery
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. It was the first
Cistercian
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house to be founded in
Scotland
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since the
Scottish Reformation
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. Founded in 1946 by monks from
Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea
Mount St. Joseph Abbey is an abbey of the Trappist branch of the Cistercians located in County Offaly, near Roscrea, County Tipperary in Ireland.
The abbey was founded in 1878 by a group of 32 monks from Mount Melleray Abbey, County Waterford, ...
,
Ireland
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, and consecrated as an Abbey in 1948, it nestles at the foot of the
Lammermuir Hills
The Lammermuirs are a range of hills in southern Scotland, forming a natural boundary between East Lothian and the Borders. The name "Lammermuir" comes from the Old English ''lambra mōr'', meaning "moorland of the lambs".
Geology
The Lamme ...
on the southern edge of
East Lothian
East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921.
In 1975, the hi ...
. 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
Cistercian nuns are female members of the Cistercian Order, a religious order belonging to the Roman Catholic branch of the Catholic Church.
History
The first Cistercian monastery for women, Le Tart Abbey, was established at Tart-l'Abbaye in the ...
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
Ada de Warenne (or Adeline de Varenne) ( 1120 – 1178) was the Anglo-Norman wife of Henry of Scotland, Earl of Northumbria and Earl of Huntingdon. She was the daughter of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey by Elizabeth of Vermandois, an ...
,
Countess of Huntingdon and daughter of the
Earl of Surrey
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, soon after the death of
Bernard of Clairvaux
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, and the small evidence that is available suggests that Nunraw was a
grange
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* Grange House, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906
* Grange Estate, Pennsylvania, built in 1682
* Monastic grange, a farming estate belonging to a monastery
Geography Australia
* Grange, South Austr ...
of that convent.
The modern monastery was built between 1952 and 1970 (but is unfinished as the abbey church was never built) by architect Peter Rice Whiston (1912-1999).
List of Abbots
The modern establishment has had four 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. Father Michael was the Prior, never the abbot. Nunraw was elevated from a priory to an abbey in 1948, Dom Columban Mulcahy being the first abbot.
* Dom
Columban Mulcahy
Columbanus ( ga, Columbán; 543 – 21 November 615) was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in ...
, O.C.S.O. (1900-1971), Lord Abbot between 1948 and 1969
* Dom
Donald McGlynn, O.C.S.O., Abbot-''emeritus'' and Lord Abbot between 1969 and 2003, a "Chief" of the
Igbo people
The Igbo people ( , ; also spelled Ibo" and formerly also ''Iboe'', ''Ebo'', ''Eboe'',
*
*
* ''Eboans'', ''Heebo'';
natively ) are an ethnic group in Nigeria. They are primarily found in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States. A ...
in Nigeria.
* Dom
Raymond Jaconelli
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, O.C.S.O., Lord Abbot from 2003 to 2009
* Dom
Mark Caira
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Currency
* Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic
* Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927
* Finn ...
, O.C.S.O., Lord Abbot from 2009
See also
*
List of monastic houses in Scotland
List of monastic houses in Scotland is a catalogue of the abbeys, priories, friaries and other monastic religious houses of Scotland.
In this article alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monast ...
*
Catholic Church in Scotland
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*
White Castle, East Lothian
Nunraw is an estate in East Lothian, Scotland. It includes the White Castle, a hillfort, situated on the edge of the Lammermuir Hills, two miles south of the village of Garvald, (, , OS Landranger No.67.) Nunraw House was formerly used as the Gu ...
*
Garvald
*
List of places in East Lothian
''Map of places in East Lothian compiled from this list''
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References
External links
Website of Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw*
ttp://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=809222003 Dom Donald McGlynn's elevation to the chieftaincy of the Igbo
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Listed monasteries in Scotland
Trappist monasteries in the United Kingdom
Cistercian monasteries in Scotland
Christian organizations established in 1946
1946 establishments in Scotland
Buildings and structures in East Lothian