About 1.5 miles (2.5 km) south of central Whitethorn is Redwoods Monastery, a community of Cistercian nuns.
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Late in his life, he had under his charge the spiritual welfare of the Cistercian nuns at Hoven, near Zulpich, whom he served as chaplain.
Due to religious persecution, a group of Cistercian nuns emigrated to Canada in 1904, from a Cistercian monastery located in Vaise (Lyon), France (which had been founded in 1817) in order to reestablish their monastic community in Rogersville.