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Monastery of Our Lady of Jordan

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timber was converted into lumber for the use of the community and to sell. The monks also grew a variety of produce, including cereal crops, vegetables, pears, plums, and apples. One of the brothers won prizes at the Linn County Fair for his vegetables. In 1905, a dozen more men arrived. Over the
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The monk's ventures were hampered by the language barrier and a "severe lack of business experience". The high costs of hauling logs also contributed to the monk's financial problems. They tried a dairy, but high interest on loans in the post
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monks from Fontgombault arrived in Oregon and bought about 400 acres (1.6 km) of land near Jordan on which to build a monastery. Half of the acreage was cultivated farmland and the rest was woodland and brush. On a tributary of the
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next six years, as many as 35 American men tried to join the monks but they "found conditions too primitive or precarious, and all but one abandoned the idea".
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era left them in debt. The monks remained hopeful, but their superiors did not tell them about their dire financial situation. The sawmill burned down.
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arrived and explained the reasons for the order, George wrote a letter of submission. Some monks returned to France, but others became
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had given the government control over non-profit associations and threatened the existence of monasteries.
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took him into their hospital and cared for him for a year free of charge. A group of Benedictine women in
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then took over from the sisters and cared for the abbot for the rest of his life.
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List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon
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that formed the southern boundary of their property, they built a steam
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A History of the Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest, 1743-1983
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In late summer and fall of 1904, under the direction of their
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Index

Cistercian
Trappist
monastery
Jordan
Linn County, Oregon
United States
Cistercian
Fontgombault Abbey
Indre
France
1901 secularist-driven French law
abbot
Trappist
Santiam River
sawmill
Douglas-fir
Archbishop of Oregon City
Alexander Christie
Thomas Meienhofer
Benedictine Abbey of Mount Angel
Spanish–American War
Trappist superiors
Kentucky
Rome
Benedictines
Archdiocese of Oregon City
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland
tuberculosis
Providence Sisters in Portland
Idaho

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