Holy Family Hermitage,Camaldolese Hermits

USA / Ohio / Bloomingdale / Fairplay Rd
 monastery, hermitage, Roman Catholic church
Camaldolese Hermits of MonteCorona.
Holy Family Hermitage
1501 Fairplay Rd
BLOOMINGDALE, Ohio 43910 - 7971
U.S.A.
Who are the Camaldolese? A form of semi-eremitical life is practiced in the Camaldolese hermitage. It consists of a wise balance between the solitary (eremitic)
life and community (cenobitic) life.
The eremitism is manifest in the fact that each monk lives in a cell (little house with small garden) separate from the others; he
habitually takes meals alone; he does the "lectio divina" and other personal prayers in cell; he perhaps does manual labor alone;
and he spends the time remaining after work and common prayer in cell.
They are the elder of the two ancient, semi eremitical orders of the Western Church, the junior being the Carthusians. Saint Romuald founded the Hermitage of Camaldoli at a place by that name near the center of a wooded mountain chain of Arezzo, Italy, in 1023 or a little later. Saint Bruno (of Cologne) instituted the Carthusians in the French Alps in 1084, two kilometers above where the Grande Chartreuse is now located. There are today two Camaldolese congregations. The Camaldolese Benedictines, who retain Camaldoli, have both monasteries and hermitages, whereas the Camaldolese Hermits of MonteCorona, founded as a reform by Blessed Paul Giustiniani in 1520, have hermitages only.ad
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Coordinates:   40°23'4"N   80°49'30"W

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  • This is an interesting place. I have visited several times.
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