Rogersville, New Brunswick

Rogersville, New Brunswick

Rogersville (2006 population: 1,165Fact|date=September 2007) is a Canadian village in Northumberland County, New Brunswick.

Rogersville is the home of two Cistercian-Trappist monasteries, Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Abbey and Notre Dame du Calvaire Abbey. The village is named in honour of the Roman Catholic Bishop, The Reverend James Rogers.

It is also the burial place of the man considered the Father of Modern Acadia - Monseigneur Marcel-Francois Richard, and the site of a monument containing his sarcophagus.


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