About Trappistine Candy
Mount Saint Mary's Abbey is home to fifty strictly observant Cistercian nuns, commonly known as the Trapistinian sect. Founded in 1098, Citeaux, France, is now made up of monks and nuns who live in more than 170 monasteries around the world. Trappistine Candy special convent is a church dedicated to their blessed mother, founded in 1949 by st. Mary's of Glencairn, their Irish mother's home, and since then they have had three other American communities: Mrs. Iowa of Mississippi, Santa Rita of Arizona, and their lady of angels of Virginia. Trappistine Candy are religious women who devote their lives to prayer and meditation. According to saint Benedict's rule, the essence of their dedicated life is the monastery. In their daily lives, the delicate balance between liturgy, clergy and labor provides the impetus for constant prayer and mindfulness of god's presence in their lives and in the world.