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FINDINGS OF FACT
Some of the facts have been stipulated and are so found.
The stipulation of facts and the accompanying exhibits are
incorporated by this reference. Petitioners Roger and Sharon
Wortmann resided in Hartington, Nebraska, at the time they filed
their petition. Petitioners Michael J. and Leslie A. Cain
resided in Bloomfield, Nebraska, at the time they filed their
petition. Petitioners Steven L. and Nancy E. Archbold resided in
Bloomfield, Nebraska, at the time they filed their petition.
Petitioners William J. and Janice L. Hesse resided in Yankton,
South Dakota, at the time they filed their petition.
The Monastery
In the late 1970s, Father Clifford Stevens, a Catholic
priest, was serving as the pastor for a church in Neligh,
Nebraska. Father Stevens had dreamed of building a monastery and
looked in many places for the right piece of land on which to
build the monastery.
In the early 1980s, Father Stevens found a 240-acre parcel
of land about 10 miles from Neligh, Nebraska, near Oakdale,
Nebraska, that he considered perfect for the monastery. Father
Stevens received permission from the Archbishop of Omaha
(Archbishop) to build a monastery on the land and arranged for
incorporating a nonprofit organization, called the Monks of
Tintern, Inc. (Monks Nonprofit), to obtain the land. The Monks
Nonprofit obtained the land and constructed a barn-shaped
monastery and a chapel.
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