Hunts Point, NY
Also known as: Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Adoration
Suffix: OP
This collection contains the records of the Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery located in Hunts Point, New York.
This collection is unprocessed and currently closed for research.
Founding Dates
1889
Founded by Mother Mary of Jesus (Julia Crooks, OP)
Mary of Mercy, OP stands next to foundress Mary of Jesus, OP (Julia Crooks) who is seated.
Julia Crooks, Mother Mary of Jesus, OP (1838-1924), foundress of Corpus Christi Monastery
Mother Mary of Jesus (Julia Crooks of New York City) entered the Dominican monastery in Oullins, France, with the stipulation that, if the opportunity presented itself, she would bring Dominican contemplative life to the United States. When Bishop Corrigan of Newark, New Jersey, invited her to establish a monastery in his diocese she accepted, and in 1880 founded the Monastery of St. Dominic in Newark.
Nine years later, Bishop Corrigan, now Archbishop of New York, extended another invitation to Mother Mary of Jesus who, with five Sisters, established a Corpus Christi Monastery in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx, New York.
Her niece, Mary Emmanuel, OP, was among those who joined her in New York, and later helped establish a sister monastery in Menlo Park, CA.
-Text courtesy of Corpuschristimonastery.org. Image gathered from the Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery (Hunts Point, NY) records, Catholic Religious Archives at Boston College.
Charisms of the Monastery
The Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery are a community of cloistered contemplative nuns focusing on prayer and silence. The community at Corpus Christi Monastery is also known as the Dominican Nuns of Perpetual Adoration, named for their special designation as a monastery offering perpetual Eucharistic Adoration, the devotional practice in which the eucharistic wafer, believed to be Jesus’ actual body through transubstantiation, is exposed for 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Historical Sketch
Julia Crooks, a young woman from a wealthy New York family, was so inspired by a visit with her family to the Dominican Monastery in Ouillins, France, that she joined their religious community. At the invitation of Archbishop Michael Corrigan, Crooks (now Mother Mary of Jesus, OP) left the Dominican Monastery in Newark, New Jersey, she had helped to found in order to establish a new monastery in the state of New York. In 1889, accompanied by a group of nuns from the Newark monastery, she established Corpus Christi Monastery on Lafayette Avenue in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx in 1889. The cloister of the Dominican Nuns stood in solemn contrast to the busy city streets, with the grandeur of the New York skyline in view from their cloister garden. After the establishment of the the New York city monastery, Crooks’ niece Mary Emmanuel, OP, who had helped found the New York monastery, went on to found the Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, California.
-Information and image gathered from the Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery (Hunts Point, NY) records, Catholic Religious Archives at Boston College.
For more information:
Please see the official website of the monastery (now closed) at Corpuschristimonastery.org