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Thomas More University, historically a liberal arts college, was founded in 1921 as the all-women's Villa Madonna College in Covington, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, by Covington's Benedictine Sisters.
Sister Gertrud Leupi OSB before 1900. Gertrud Leupi OSB, (1 March 1825 – 26 March 1904) was a Swiss Benedictine and founder of monasteries.She founded the Maria Rickenbach Monastery, Switzerland, the Yankton Benedictine, South Dakota, and the Marienburg monastery, Wikon, Switzerland.
The Mount Marty athletic teams are called the Lancers. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) since the 2000–01 academic year.
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]
Albertus Magnus College (New Haven, Connecticut); Aquinas College (Grand Rapids, Michigan); Aquinas College (Nashville, Tennessee); Aquinas Institute of Theology (St. Louis, Missouri)
Long Fox, To-Can-Has-Ka, Tachana, Yankton Sioux, 1872. The tribe's reservation is the Yankton Indian Reservation, established in 1853 in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.The tribe has a land base of 36,741 acres (148.69 km 2). [9]
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.
The present Confederation of Congregations of Monasteries of the Order of Saint Benedict, officially, the "Benedictine Confederation" of monks, consists of the following congregations in the order given in the Catalogus Monasteriorum OSB (dates are those of the foundation of the congregations – Primacy of honour is given to the Cassinese Congregation, though the English Congregation is the ...