New York, Italy
Corpus Christi Monastery, founded in 1891, is the oldest monastery in the United States of nuns of the Dominican Order. It is an offshoot of Notre-Dame-de-Prouille Monastery, the first monastery of nuns founded by Dominic de Guzman, founder and namesake of the Order, in France in 1206. Dominic saw t
hese first women as partners in the "Holy Preaching" of the friars he soon founded, offering them support by their prayers and sacrifices.
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