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The first Benedictine to live in the United States was Pierre-Joseph Didier. He came to the United States in 1790 from Paris and served in the Ohio and St. Louis areas until his death. The first actual Benedictine monastery founded was Saint Vincent Archabbey, located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Founded in 1872, the Congregation has its origin in the Congregation of the Abbey of Santa Giustina, founded in Padua in 1408 by Dom Ludovico Barbo. The Benedictines suffered badly in the anti-clerical atmosphere at the time of Napoleon and the modern Congregations were mostly founded in the 19th century when monasticism was revived. The ...
Six of them emigrated to St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1857, moving to St. Joseph in 1863. Mother Benedicta Riepp, considered the founder of Benedictine women's communities in the United States, is buried in the monastery cemetery. [3] Seven sisters from the convent moved to Atchison, Kansas, where they founded the Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica. [4]
Mary Wilhelmina was born Mary Elizabeth Lancaster on April 13, 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri. [5] She was a descendent of enslaved African-Americans from Ste. Genevieve, Missouri . [ 2 ] She joined the Oblate Sisters of Providence , a congregation of black religious sisters in Baltimore , Maryland , when she was 17 years old and adopted the name ...
The oldest copy of the Rule of Saint Benedict, from the eighth century (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Hatton 48, fols. 6v–7r). The Rule of Saint Benedict (Latin: Regula Sancti Benedicti) is a book of precepts written in Latin c. 530 by St. Benedict of Nursia (c. AD 480–550) for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.
Boniface Wimmer, OSB (1809–1887) was a German archabbot who in 1846 founded the first Benedictine monastery in the United States, Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3] In 1855, Wimmer founded the American-Cassinese Congregation of Benedictine Confederation. [4] [5] [6]
For weeks after the Benedictine sisters of Mount St. Scholastica responded to Chiefs placekicker ... about them and their relationship with Benedictine College, which they co-founded, so I paid ...
Norbert Weber (1870-1956), First Archabbot of Archabbey and Congregation of Saint Ottilien (Bavaria). The congregation was founded in 1884, incorporating the houses founded on the vision of Andreas Amrhein, a monk of Beuron Archabbey, who, finding it impossible to realise the vision of the Benedictine mission within Beuron, left to begin an independent community. [1]