Georgia monastery helps visitors find peace they seek, says nun

Published: 2004-07-23

SNELLVILLE, Ga. (CNS) -- The spirituality that emanates from the prayers of the Sisters of the Visitation at their monastery in Snellville seems to offer a sense of peace to visitors, said Sister Mary Immaculata Collin, a member of the cloistered order. "There is a desire in every human heart to find God and to find peace. They seem to sense there is something here that seems to assist them in their quest. It is the antithesis of superficiality," she said. Sister Mary Immaculata is the only sister still living from the group that founded the monastery in Georgia 50 years ago. Its establishment was the heartfelt desire of Mother Francis de Sales Cassidy, a Visitation nun from a Macon Catholic family who wanted to found a monastery for her order in her home state. She brought nine nuns from a Toledo, Ohio, monastery and the spirituality of their contemplative order to the Archdiocese of Atlanta in 1954.

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