- Time Period
- 1790
- Description
- Discalced (shoeless) Carmelite Nuns trace their origins to 13th Century Palestine, and were known for their seclusion and commitment to a life of prayer. In 1790, 36 years after she left Maryland to become a Carmelite nun in Europe, Mother Bernardina Teresa Xavier of St. Joseph (1732-1800) returned to start the first Roman Catholic convent in America. She was accompanied by two fellow Carmelite nieces and a fourth nun born in England. Mother Bernardina was coaxed to return by a brother who was a priest in Maryland. "Now is the time to found in this country, for peace is declared and religion is free," he wrote in a letter. They came from Hoogstraet Carmel in Belgium and established a contemplative monastery on three acres in Port Tobacco, Md.In 1831, the nuns moved to Baltimore, where they started a female academy to help support their monastery.Today, there are approximately 60 Carmelite monasteries in the U.S.
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Carmelite convent, Baltimore, Maryland- Hathi Trust- from The Catholic Church in the United States of America, vol 2 -
Mount Carmel monastery, Camden County, MD- Hathi Trust- from Carmel in America by Charles Warren Currier -
Mother Clare Joseph Dickenson, one of the original four nuns- Hathi Trust- from Carmel in America by Charles Warren Currier - Web Source(s)
- http://lorettocarmel.org/content/history-carmelite-order "Carmel of St. Therese of Lisieux (Loretto, Penn.) website, "History of the Carmelite Order"
- http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mcnamarasblog/2012/07/americas-first-monastery-the-carmelites-in-maryland-1790.html Patheos website, "America's First Monastery: The Carmelites in Maryland (1790)," by Pat McNamara
- http://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mathews-ann-teresa-1732-1800 Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia, "Mathews, Ann Teresa"
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- Sandi Dolbee Affliated with: Former Religion and Ethics Editor, The San Diego Union-Tribune
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