The next move was now to be to America. In 1949, Fr Adrian came with a small group of Russia immigrants and settled one hour north of [[w:New York City|New York City]] in [[w:Nyack, New York|Nyack]] in [[w:Rockland County|Rockland County]]. In the Fall of the same year, Archbishop [[Vitaly (Maximenko) of Jersey City|Vitaly]] of Jordanville and Archbishop [[Nikon (Rklitski) of Florida|Nikon]] asked that Fr. Adrian establish a women’s monastery to gather together nuns that had been scattered throughout the Diaspora and to establish the Orthodox way of life in this remote area. Fr. Adrian says that not only nuns but a significant number of the thousand displaced persons from Europe, came to settle around the monastery and became a large Orthodox family.Regarding this new settlement, Fr Adrian said,<blockquote>“It is not yet enough to establish a monastic life; one must preserve it. For there is always the danger that life can be converted into a hothouse, a greenhouse, where it will be supported by artificial warmth, and as soon as the source of warmth ceases to operate, life will perish. Therefore there must be a constant source of life. Just as the earth and its vital juices constantly nourish vegetation, so our life also must be ceaselessly nourished by that elemental power which the Church of Christ gives, which is incarnated in the Orthodox way of life, in the Divine services, in fasting, in prayer, in vigils, in all that which embodies our Holy Russia. This is the elemental power which places in the mouth of the man who is leaving his earthly existence the last words, ‘Into Thy hands I commend my spirit’, and gives him the possibility to depart into eternal existence with the name of Christ.”</blockquote>