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One was the Benedictine foundation of Saint Michael Abbey in the town of Metten, Bavaria. Saint Michael Abbey, founded in 766 by Charlemagne with monks from the Archcenobium of Monte Cassino of the Italian province of Umbria, had been suppressed in 1803 by Napoleon. With its re-establishment, Wimmer sought to enter the newly formed monastery ...
Parish Church of St Michael, built 15th century; rebuilt by James Harrison 1849–50, ... Benedictine nuns (community founded at earlier site ...
St Michael's Priory, Kumily, Idukki, Kerala, India, is a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of the Missionary Benedictines of Saint Ottilien.The monastery was established in 1987 by Zacharias Kuruppacheril, an Indian secular priest.
Monks from Latrobe in turn founded Saint John's Abbey in Minnesota, and the adjoining Saint John's University. [4] Since 1858 Metten has been a member of the Bavarian Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation. During World War II, more than 1,000 refugees from the East found shelter at Metten, located just 30 miles from the Czechoslovak border.
Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–543); detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico (c. 1400–1455) in the Friary of San Marco Florence. The monastery at Subiaco in Italy, established by Benedict of Nursia c. 529, was the first of the dozen monasteries he founded.
In 710, Mont Tombe was renamed Mont-Saint-Michel au péril de la Mer ("Mount Saint Michael at the peril of the sea", "Mons Sancti Michaelis in periculo maris") after an oratory was erected to Saint Michael by bishop Saint Aubert of Avranches in 708. According to the legend, Aubert received, during his sleep, three times the order from Saint ...
Saint Vincent Seminary is a Catholic seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Father Boniface Wimmer in 1846, who came from Saint Michael's Abbey in Metten, Bavaria , to establish Saint Vincent Archabbey as the first Benedictine monastery in North America .
Saint Michael's Abbey (French: Abbaye Saint-Michel) is a Benedictine abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire, England. The small community is known for its liturgy (which is sung in Latin and Gregorian chant), its pipe organ, and its liturgical publishing and printing. This abbey is also known for enshrining a Pontifically crowned image of Saint Joseph.