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Corpus Christi Monastery

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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 these 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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Corpus Christi Monastery
Lafayette Avenue, New York The Bronx

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Lafayette Avenue 1230
10474 New York, The Bronx
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