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Who Are We:
We are a
contemplative monastery of Camaldolese Benedictine sisters, a dependent
priory of the Camaldolese Benedictine women's house on the Aventine in
Rome. We were formally affiliated in 1986. We are officially part of the
international Benedictine Confederation (Order) and part of the
Camaldolese congregation within the Order. We reside in the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Syracuse. We incorporate both the spirit of St. Benedict and
St. Romuald.
The Sacredness of
Place:
Our Monastery was
providentially guided to locate in the Upper Susquehanna River Valley—a
place of extraordinary beauty. Windsor, New York is approximately fifteen
miles east of Binghamton in south central New York State and 165 miles
west of New York City.
Historically, the
Windsor, New York area was called "Onaquaga", home to Tascaroras. Before the Revolutionary
War, this area was an unusually friendly meeting place of Native American
and white settlers. It became a hub of the famous French and Indian wars.
Joseph Brandt was a well-known Native American leader of the time.
Onaquaga Mountain, just north of Windsor, is one of the three sacred
mountains for Native Americans in New York State. It was a meeting place
for the chiefs of the Iroquois Confederacy. Just east of Windsor, across
the Susquehanna, is Tuscarora Mountain, named for the Tuscarora Indians,
who were particularly in the South Windsor Valley.
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