Adobe monasteries

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In historical photographs, it looks like one of the largest buildings around — both the product and a symbol of an active community.

I visited Ruidosa on a recent evening, to see the church firsthand. The hardwood floors are long gone, and the slumping window frames are shored up with wooden braces. People like Chon Prieto, who rolled up in his white pickup truck while we were at the church. Addressing the members of the restoration group, Prieto expressed his thanks. Search Query Show Search. Show Search Search Query. Due to the population increase, the people of Marienfeld decided to officially organize Martin County in December, , with Marienfeld as the county seat.

Martin County was created by legislative act in , and attached to Mitchell County and Howard County for administrative purposes until Worth and El Paso. The year after, the settlers constructed a large permanent adobe church next to the monastery after wind storms damaged the original wood frame church in June, From to , the area experienced an intense drought and subsequent sandstorms that destroyed many farms.

These hardships led directly to the Carmelites eventual departure from Stanton, as the original settlers who left were predominantly Catholic. Due to an increased population of Protestants, the residents of the town officially decided to change the name of the town from Marienfeld to Stanton in By , the monastery had grown in importance to Texas and surrounding states, yet with this success came further initiative to spread their faith to other communities.

The Martin County monastery served as the headquarters for three other monasteries in Louisiana and West Texas, which were organized juridically within the Carmelite Order as a commissariate, or vice-province, known as the Commissariate of the South. Most of the friars were German, with two from the Netherlands and one from Poland.

Many of these were recruited directly from Europe to live and minister in the four monasteries. This made their lives even more difficult, as the vast distances often meant they were away for weeks at a time.

It is estimated that, by , the Carmelites reached 5, people at 35 mission stations, traveling by train and buggy to reach the German, Scotch-Irish, Swiss and Mexican residents. Each Carmelite friar completed training in Stanton before traveling to one of the three sister monasteries to serve the community and surrounding parishes and missions.