Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw

Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw
Monastery information
Order Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance
Established 1946
Disestablished extant
Mother house Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea
Diocese Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh

Nunraw Abbey or Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw is a working Trappist (Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae) monastery. It was the first Cistercian house to be founded in Scotland since the Reformation. Founded in 1946 by monks from Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Ireland, and inaugurated as an Abbey in 1948, it nestles at the foot of the Lammermuir Hills on the southern edge of East Lothian. The estate of the abbey is technically called White Castle after an early hill-fort on the land.

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History

Originally owned by the Cistercian Nuns 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, Countess of Huntingdon and daughter of the Earl of Surrey, soon after the death of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and the small evidence that is available suggests that Nunraw was a Grange of that convent.

List of Abbots

The modern establishment has had four Lord Abbots since its inception:

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