Dom Richard Purcell, Abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey. The Book is Published by Columba Press.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan/FREE PIC Plans for an Irish campus by a US Catholic university at the former Mount Melleray Abbey in Co. Waterford have reached an “advanced stage”, according to the Cistercian Order in Ireland. In a statement, the Cistercian community at Our Lady of Silence Abbey said discussions with Florida-based Ave Maria University on a proposed “educational and…
