History

Monastic life on the present site of “Madonna dell’Unione” began on 17 May 1972 with the arrival at Boschi of three monks of Tre Fontane. The latter community had decided on 17 March, after deliberation and vote on the part of the chapter, that three of its members would go to Boschi to begin experimenting with a simplified yet authentic form of monastic life. The report also mentions that the General Chapter had given abbots the faculty to authorize these kinds of experiments, and takes into account a certain pressure from the bishops who were asking the Trappists to guarantee a monastic presence in their dioceses in the Piedmont.

The monastic implantation at Boschi started as an annex house of Tre Fontane, and subsequently became an annex house of Tamié. The General Chapter of 1993 (in Poyo, Spain) entrusted the house to the personal care of Dom Jean-Marc, abbot of Tamiè, who accompanied it up until the General Chapter of 1996 voted on 11 October for the erection of Boschi as a simple priory under the title, “Monastero Madonna dell’Unione”.