Ok, first question: Were there monasteries in the 1800s in America? Specifically in Texas.
If so, what were they doing, how did the monks live, what was a typical day like for them?
1800s is not absolutely essential, it could easily be earlier, and could even be a little later, but it should be long enough ago that it's not common knowledge that there was once a monastery in the city.
Actual answers and resources for research both gratefully accepted!
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In America, probably, though I'm not really sure what would make for a good search term - "monastery 1800s" plus a particular state might do it. I'm not having much luck in finding one in Texas. There were missions in San Antonio starting in the early 1700s, but not monasteries, as far as I can tell. There was a convent founded in 1932 in Amarillo (I found a number of pages with links to sites that were gone - that is literally the only information I was able to find in about forty-five minutes of looking), and while it wasn't a monastery (i.e. the sisters living there were not cloistered), it wouldn't surprise me that there might have been other convents in other parts of Texas which were founded in the 1800s, and I would find it plausible that there might be a monastery or two, either a double monastery (both men and women) or one for only men or women (in the lattermost case it would be likely to be called a convent, even though non-cloistered sisters who live together also live in a convent).
For finding out what their day would be like, it would probably be easier to pick a particular order of monks and search for information there. The life of a monk in a given order in 1942 would be very similar to the life of a monk in the same order in 1842 or 1742.
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