Abbey, Saint Martin’s Lacey, Washington. Founded by the Benedictines in 1895. An abbey since 1914. Conducts a college. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Abbey, Saint John’s
Abbey, Saint John’s Collegeville, Minnesota. Founded by the Benedictines in1857. Includes a seminary, preparatory school, college, and novitiate. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Abbey, Saint-Denis
Abbey, Saint-Denis Near Paris, France. Founded in 630 by King Dagobert for Benedictine monks. Possesses the shrine of Saint Denis, became one of the richest and most important abbeys in France. Suger, thirty- sixth abbot, was perhaps the most famous among them. The present building was begun in 1140. In 1633 it was united to … Continue reading “Abbey, Saint-Denis”
Abbey, Saint Benedict’s, Scotland
Abbey, Saint Benedict’s, Scotland Fort Augustus, Scotland, founded, 1876 , by Dom Jerome Vaughan of the Anglo-Benedictine Congregation, upon the site of a fort built, 1729 . Made an independent abbey , 1882 , under the immediate jurisdiction of the Holy See, the primate exercises the powers peculiar to the head of a congregation. Fuente: … Continue reading “Abbey, Saint Benedict’s, Scotland”
Abbey, Saint Benedict’s, Oregon
Abbey, Saint Benedict’s, Oregon Abbey and seminary at Mount Angel, Oregon. Founded by the Benedictines in1882. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Abbey, Saint Benedict’s, Kansas
Abbey, Saint Benedict’s, Kansas Atchison, Kansas. Founded by the Benedictines in 1857; abbey since 1876. Connected with it are a college, high school and diocesan seminaries. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Abbey, Saint Bede
Abbey, Saint Bede Peru, Illinois. Founded by the Benedictines. Abbey since 1910. Conducts a seminary and college. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Abbey, Saint Augustine
Abbey, Saint Augustine Benedictine monastery founded outside the city of Canterbury, England in 605, dedicated anew to Saints Peter, Paul, and Augustine by Saint Dunstan in 978. Suppressed in 1538. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Abbey, Saint Anselm’s
Abbey, Saint Anselm’s Manchester, New Hampshire. Founded by the Benedictines in1893. Conducts a college. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Abbey, Rufford
Abbey, Rufford Cistercian monastery, Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England, founded c.1147 by Gilbert de Gant and colonized with monks from Rievaulx Abbey. It was confiscated in 1536 by order of King Henry VIII, owned by a couple of families as part of the estates, and now owned by English Heritage. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary