Tucked away in the Tehachapi Mountains of California, a group of cloistered ... when St. Norbert of Xanten founded the first community, the Norbertine Canonesses of Bethlehem Priory of St. Joseph ...

The Norbertines’ St. Michael’s Abbey in ... In 1957, Cardinal James McIntyre of Los Angeles invited them to California. The monks’ lives are organized around the Mass and the Liturgy of ...

TEHACHAPI — The Sisters of the Norbertine Canonesses of the Bethlehem ... the 20th anniversary since the founding of the local monastery, and the 100th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions.

This past summer, the order established a new priory in Springfield, Illinois, where seven of the California Norbertine priests now live. Father Criste believes young men are being drawn to the ...

A Norbertine priest who escaped communist Hungary ... James McIntyre of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He and the other monks saved their teaching salaries and, in 1961, founded St. Michael ...

Monks at the Norbertine abbey recently delved into a collection of books that was almost destroyed by a fire during the French Revolution. They uncovered details on how Grimbergen beers were ...

(photo: Courtesy photo / Norbertine Canonesses) Tucked away in the Tehachapi Mountains of California ... has plans to complete construction of its monastery and chapel. “God continues to ...