Mount Carmel Monastery
The monastery was founded on October 15, 1790, by four English-speaking Carmelite nuns from what is now Belgium, including Ann Teresa Mathews. Three of the nuns were born in Charles County, while the fourth, Frances Dickinson, was from London. Like thousands of English Roman Catholic girls who wanted to be nuns, Dickinson had traveled to Belgium to enter a convent there, as none was left in England. She served as the first prioress until her death in 1830.
In 1831, the nuns then in residence were ordered by the bishop to transfer the convent to Baltimore, Maryland. This property in Port Tobacco was abandoned. In 1933 an organization called the Restorers of Mt. Carmel in Maryland formed to aid in the restoration of the site.
The Mt. Carmel Monastery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Dickinson, Frances [name in religion Clare Joseph of the Heart of Jesus] (1755–1830), prioress at Port Tobacco Carmel, Maryland". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105822. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 2021-03-01. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ J. Richard Rivoire (May 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Carmel Monastery" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
External links
Media related to Mount Carmel Monastery at Wikimedia Commons
- Mt. Carmel Monastery, including photo from 1969, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Restorers of Mount Carmel in Maryland
- "Mesmerized by Mt. Carmel Monastery, Port Tobacco, Maryland," Southern Maryland Living
- Discalced Nuns of the Carmel of Port Tobacco
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