>Does anyone know if this claim is/is not true. In other
>words, does anyone on the list know of any monastic ruins
>on the continent?

Adrian:

I guess it depends on what you mean by "ruins."  Here in
North Dakota we have the archaeological site of St. Gall's,
the Benedictine monastery on the shores of Devils Lake.  The
good monks moved to Richardton and created St. Mary's Abbey,
now known as Assumption Abbey, and still occupied.  There
are sites associated with the Sisters of Charity of Montreal
(Grey Nuns) up around Devils Lake, and the Grey Nuns also
for a while ran Fort Totten, a former US Army post, later
sanitarium, still later Indian school, and now State
Historic Site.  There are 20+ original buildings at that
site, some falling down faster than we can keep them up.
Nuns, too, live a monastic life.  Of course, there were the
Metis sisters at Walhalla, the Order of St. Ursula at Grand
Forks, and the Indian sisters of St. Benedict at Elbowoods,
all North Dakota founded orders which must have some "site"
associated with them.

If "ruins" means an archeological site with no features
showing above ground, we've got them.  We've also got quite
spectacular monasteries still in use (Assumption Abbey).  If
ruins means "...parts of walls sticking up...," then we
don't have any - but I'm curious how your Centre is housed
in something like that?

Chris Dill

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