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Building History

This 300-acre Benedictine monastery opened in 1977 with eight nuns, several of whom relocated from CT. As noted in an article in the NW Catholic in 2015: "The mothers’ lives on this bucolic island began in 1977, after the land was donated to their community, [from] the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut, by a man who was a Benedictine oblate. Three nuns, including Mother Therese, traveled across the country to start the new monastery." (See Brian LeBlanc, NW Catholic.org, "On Shaw Island, Benedictine nuns share lives of work, prayer and hospitality," published 07/09/2015, accessed 04/11/2019.) By 2015, seven nuns operated the complex that included a chapel, nun's enclosure, guest houses and a barn. Here the nuns raised chickens, sheep, llamas, and long-horned Highland cattle. From the cows' milk the nuns made cheese for local sale.

PCAD id: 22813