The Cloistered Contemplative Dominican Nuns, belonging to the Order of Preachers (O.P), were founded in 1206 by St. Dominic in France ( Prouille). Thus, the Nuns were the first community St. Dominic created for prayer and for supporting his preaching mission before the Friars Preachers were even officially approved in 1216.

In 1880 the first monastery from France was founded in the United States of America (USA). In 1919 the Dominican Monastery of Summit New Jersey was founded. In 1947 the Summit Monastery founded Our Lady of Grace Monastery in North Guilford Connecticut.

In 1964, the Monastery of Our Lady of Grace, in North Guilford Connecticut, USA had received a written invitation from the Diocese of Nairobi, Kenya, in the hand of the then- Ordinary, Archbishop McCarcthy. His intention was as clear as it was urgent: “to bring to Nairobi perpetual adoration and perpetual recitation of the Rosary and complete cloistered Dominican life.” This set into motion a process that would see the said Monastery, by resolution of its council, appoint twelve (12) nuns from among their number; these two were commissioned and tasked with the heavy yet worthwhile responsibility of establishing a Dominican Monastic Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya—the “Corpus Christi Monastery” as it has since come to be known.