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[4] St. Benedict Priory in Benet Lake, Wisconsin: "The monastery was founded by Conception Abbey on March 21, 1945, was raised to a conventual priory on December 15, 1950, and to the status of an abbey on May 24, 1952. On October 23, 2014, the Chapter of St. Benedict’s Abbey voted to become dependent Priory of Conception Abbey.
Benet Lake (also Renet Lake) is a community in the village of Salem Lakes in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.It is located north of Antioch, Illinois.The community takes its name from the Benedictine Fathers, who own the south side of Benet Lake and established a monastery/seminary in 1945.
Conception Abbey was established on 8 December 1873, by Benedictine monks of the Swiss abbey of Engelberg as a place of refuge should their monastery be suppressed by the Swiss government. They also came in response to the appeal of the Rev. James Power to minister to the spiritual needs of a colony of Irish and German settlers which he had ...
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Anglican Benedictine Abbots are invited guests of the Benedictine Abbot Primate in Rome at Abbatial gatherings at Sant'Anselmo. [33] In 1168 local Benedictine monks instigated the anti-semitic blood libel of Harold of Gloucester as a template for explaining child deaths. According to historian Joe Hillaby, the blood libel of Harold was ...
Benedictine Sisters of Elk County, a Benedictine monastery located in St. Marys that closed in 2014. [73] Daylesford Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Paoli. [74] Saint Emma Monastery, a Benedictine monastery located in Greensburg. [75] Saint Vincent Archabbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Latrobe. [76]
The American-Cassinese Congregation is a Catholic association of Benedictine monasteries founded in 1855. The monasteries of the congregation follow the monastic way of life as outlined by St. Benedict of Nursia in his early 6th century Rule of Saint Benedict.
Benedictine University, also called BenU, was founded in 1887 as St. Procopius College by the Benedictine monks of St. Procopius Abbey, who lived in the Pilsen community of Chicago's West Side. The monks created the all-male institution just two years after their community began, with the intention of educating men of Czech and Slovak descent.