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La Vita Monastica { 29 images } Created 3 Nov 2009

La Vita Monastica (The Monastic Life) is my photographic study of the cloistered community of Benedictine nuns at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut. The roots of The Abbey of Regina Laudis, founded in 1947, have their origin in the ancient Abbey of Notre Dame de Jouarre, which was founded in the 7th century and is located northeast of Paris. This personal project started as a single assignment. Many of the images here are being shown for the first time.
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  • Sister Alma Egger closes a hay barn at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem. The nuns produce around 6,000 bales of hay per season to feed the abbey's livestock. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 21 December 2006- 122106BF03- Mother Praxedes Baxter, O.S.B., of the Abbey of Regina Laudis has been awarded the Mother Teresa Award from the St. Bernadette Institute of Sacred Art. She will receive the award on Chrsitmas Eve.  .Photo by Robert Falcetti
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  • Mother Margaret Georgina Patton is seen inside Sheepfold, the home and studio of artist Lauren Ford, pictured on wall. Ford won the Caldecott Honor Award in 1940 for her children's book "The Ageless Story: With Its Antiphons". The artist hosted the founding members of the abbey at Sheepfold and left the estate to the Abbey of Regina Laudis. .(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • Regina Laudis. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT-5 May 2006-Sister Alma Egger, the former Diane Egger, will present an exhibit of her artistic work at the Monastic Art Shop of the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem.   The exhibit is titled, "Eggs, Feathers and Shells". <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT-28 September 2012-- Mother Praxedes Baxter, O.S.B. gently touches the face of her aunt Mother Placid Dempsey, O.S.B. during a wake Friday in the Church of Jesu Fili Mariae at the Abbey of Regina Laudis. Mother Placid (Patricia Ann Dempsey), who passed away Thursday September 27, entered the monastery as a Postulant on August 18th, 1949, one of the first American postulants. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • MIDDLEBURY, Connecticut- 13 February 2009- Geshe Lozang Samdup leader of a group of traveling Buddhist monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in southern India greets a nun from the Abbey of Regina Laudis. The monks were creating a Sand Mandala at the Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut when they were visited by the nuns. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-A sign shows the area of Monastic Enclosure at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem. The areas marked by the enclosure signs are not to be entered by the public and indicate the private areas of the abbey community.<br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 15 DECEMBER 2005- Mother Noella Marcellino of the Abbey of Regina Laudis  sniffs a Bethlehem Cheese while having her portrait taken at the abbey. Mother Noella has won international acclaim for her cheese making. She received a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Connecticut and also was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to go to France to study native fungus strains. She is the subject of a documentary film entitled "The Cheese Nun".    (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005- A sister of the Abbey of Regina Laudis bows in prayer at the burial for Mother Benedict Duss, founder and first Abbess of the Benedictine order abbey. The abbey founded by Mother Bendict was the first female Bendictine abbey in the United States. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005- Mother Noella Marcellino of the Abbey of Regina Laudis  holds a strand of Rye which will be used to make mats which cover the abbey's cheese.  Mother Noella has won international acclaim for her cheese making. She received a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Connecticut and also was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to go to France to study native fungus strains. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005- Sister Esther Agee takes a break after loading bales of hay to speak with her brother-in-law Mark McManus from Franklin, Georgia, who came to the Abbey of Regina Laudis to help with the hay work.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005- Mother Abbess David Serna tends to grapes in the vineyard at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem. Mother Abbess is in charge of the abbey's 37 nun's at the cloistered Benedictine community. The abbey was the first female Benedictine abbey in the United States.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005- Sister Alma Egger hoists a 40-50 lb. bale of hay in one of the 12 hay fields at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem. The abbey produces about 6,000 bales of hay per season to feed their livestock.   (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005- The Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem has 12 hay fields which produce about 6,000 bales of hay per year. The hay is used to feed the abbey's livestock.<br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-Sisters Esther Agee (left) and Alma Egger of the Abbey of Regina Laudis take a break from a day of haying at one of the Abbey's 12 hay fields. <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005- Mother Margaret Georgina Patton picks beans in the raised bed garden at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem. Mother Margaret Georgina is the granddaughter of General George Patton, who liberated the abbey's founder, Mother Benedict Duss, from her abbey in France. <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-Sister Ozanne Schumann works on a 1968 International Loadstar 1600 truck at the Abbey of Regina Laudis. Sister Ozanne, who has been at the abbey for 10 years, got the old truck running and now it used on the abbey's farms. <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-Sister Elizabeth Evans teaches a new born calf to feed at the Abbey of Regina Laudis' dairy. The abbey has 4 Dutch-Belted dairy cows which produce up to 100 lbs. of raw milk per day.   <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-Mother Noella Marcellino of the Abbey of Regina Laudis  looks at fungi, on a 6 day old Bethlehem Cheese, through a botany microscope. Mother Noella has won international acclaim for her cheese making. She received a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Connecticut and also was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to go to France to study native fungus strains.    <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-Mother David Serna, Abbess of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, tends to the grape vinyard on the abbey grounds. The grapes are used to make a variety of food items.   <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-Sister Angele picks tomatoes in one of the Abbey's vegetable gardens. The Abbey of Regina Laudis follow St. Benedict's "rule" and was the first female Benedictine abbey in the United States.  <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-Mother Jadwiga Makarewicz clears bedding hay from one of the sheep barns at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem. The abbey also raises dairy and beef cattle in addition to the sheep. <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-Mother Praxedes Baxter is an accomplished artist and sculpture at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem.  (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-A sister at the Abbey of Regina Laudis tends to one of the abbey's several gardens. The sisters grow a large number of their own fruits and vegetables.   <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 10 OCTOBER 2005-Community members of the Abbey of Regina Laudis (standing) and members of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist joined together during the Monastic Burial of Lady Abbess Benedict Duss, O.S.B., at the Church of Jesu Fili Mariae located on the grounds of the Abbey of Regina Laudis.   The Lady Abbess was the foundress and first Abbess of the Abbey of Regina Laudis which began 57 years ago.<br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 10 OCTOBER 2005-Sister Chava Palmer and Sister Alma Egger of the Abbey of Regina Laudis watch as the casket of Lady Abbess Benedict Duss, O.S.B. is lowered into the grave during Lady Abbesses Monastic Burial on the grounds of the Abbey of Regina Laudis. The Lady Abbess was the foundress and first Abbess of the Abbey of Regina Laudis which began 57 years ago.   <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005-Sisters from the Abbey of Regina Laudis held their Vespers (evening Gregorian chant) around the casket of abbey founder Mother Benedict Duss the night before her funeral in the Abbey's church, Jesu Fili Mariae. Mother Benedict founded the abbey, the first female Benedictine abbey in the United States, 47 years ago.    <br />
(Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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  • BETHLEHEM, CT- 11 OCTOBER 2005- Sister Angele walks through the private cemetery at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem. The cemetery is the final resting place for the community of Benedictine nuns. (Photo by Robert Falcetti)
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