Ancient Spanish Monastery Foundation planning ARTISTS IN THE CLOISTERS on September 9

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If you haven’t yet visited the Ancient Spanish Monastery in North Miami Beach, a perfect opportunity awaits you on Thursday, September 9th. On that evening, the Ancient Spanish Monastery Foundation will welcome guests to their ARTISTS IN THE CLOISTERS event from 6:30 – 9:30pm General admission is $12 and fine art, food and spirits are available for purchase. And be sure to tour the Monastery and the grounds, home to the oldest building in the Western Hemisphere.

Marjorie Dean, President of the Ancient Spanish Monastery Foundation, said “This will be a fabulous evening the community will not want to miss. We have a cellist, Spanish guitarist and a violinist, all performing individual solos throughout the evening, artists displaying and selling extraordinary works of art, and a vibrational sound healing bath – bring something to lay on! Our food, spirits and raffle are all moderately priced. Your participation helps the Ancient Spanish Monastery Foundation endeavor to consistently maintain the most ancient building in the Western Hemisphere and one of South Florida’s most precious jewels.”

About the Ancient Spanish Monastery
Originally constructed in 1133 AD as the Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux in northern Spain, Cistercian monks occupied the Monastery for nearly 700 years. In 1925, William Randolph Hearst purchased the Cloisters and the Monastery’s outbuildings and had them dismantled stone by stone, bound with protective hay, packed in more than 11,000 wooden crates and shipped to the United States, where the massive crates remained in a New York warehouse. One year after Hearst’s death in 1952, two entrepreneurs purchased the entirety for use as a tourist attraction. It took 19 months and the equivalent of nearly $20 million dollars in today’s currency to put the Monastery back together. Time Magazine called it “the biggest jigsaw puzzle in history.” In 1964, Col. Robert Pentland, Jr. purchased the Cloisters and presented them to the Bishop of Florida, and today the parish Church of St. Bernard de Clairvaux is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida where services are held in both English and Spanish.

For information and sponsorship opportunities, call Marjorie Dean at 305.610.3567


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