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Saint Benedict Abbey (other)
Saint Benedict Abbey may refer to: * Saint Benedict Abbey, Quebec, Canada * St. Benedict Abbey (Massachusetts), U.S. * Abbaye Saint-Benoît de Koubri, Burkina Faso * Benedictine Abbey of Pietersburg, Limpopo, South Africa * Abadía de San Benito, Luján, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina See also * *Fleury Abbey Fleury Abbey (Floriacum) in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France, founded in about 640, is one of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries of Western Europe, and possesses the relics of St. Benedict of Nursia. Its site on the banks of the ...
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Saint Benedict Abbey, Quebec
Saint Benedict Abbey () is an Abbey in Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada, and was founded in 1912 by the exiled ( Fontenelle Abbey) of St. Wandrille, France under Abbot Dom Joseph Pothier, liturgist and scholar who reconstituted the Gregorian chant. Father Paul Bellot was the architect 1939–41. The new priory later became independent within the Solesmes Congregation. Today it numbers a little more than fifty monks living under the Rule of Saint Benedict Benedict of Nursia (; ; 2 March 480 – 21 March 547), often known as Saint Benedict, was a Great Church, Christian monk. He is famed in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, and Old .... Cloistered from the world, they are enjoined to seek God in the celebration of the liturgy of the Church, in private prayer accompanied by meditation of the Bible and in manual as well as intellectual work. They form a community under the direction of an Abbot. External lin ...
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Abbaye Saint-Benoît De Koubri
Abbaye Saint-Benoît de Koubri, Koubri, Kadiogo Province, Burkina Faso, is a Benedictine monastery of the Subiaco Congregation. Founded in 1961, the monastery is located around 30 km from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. As of 2000, the monastery was home to 27 monks, under the leadership of Abbot Fr André Ouédraogo. History Like Monastère Bénédictin Sainte-Marie, Abbaye Saint-Benoît de Koubri was founded by monks from the priory of Toumliline, Morocco, upon request of local participants to one of the ''International Meetings'' hosted in Toumliline. Established in 1961, by 1975 the monastery had gained independent status. In 1985, the community elected its first ethnically African superior. When a Benedictine monastery in Zagnanado, Benin, was closed in 1989, the monastic community at Koubri took in six of the young monks. After nine years of formation at the abbey, these monks returned to Hékanmè in Benin's Archdiocese of Coutonou to restart monastic ...
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Benedictine Abbey Of Pietersburg
St Benedict's Abbey, Pietersburg (Polokwane), Limpopo, South Africa, is a Benedictine monastery of the Subiaco Congregation. It began in 1911 as a mission territory; the community established a monastery in 1937. As an Abbey Nullius, the monastery governed what is now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Polokwane until 1989. As of 2022, the community numbers about 12 in various stages of formation monks. The community was given the Very Rev. Dominic Mohapi, OSB, as Prior Administrator on August 18, 2022. On October 1, 2023, the Very Rev. Ghislain Maluvu, OSB, was appointed as Prior Administrator. History In 1906, Benedictine monks of the Subiaco Congregation, Flemish Province, arrived in the Northern Transvaal. Inspired by the contribution of the first generations of Benedictines in the conversion of Western Europe, they hoped to take over the area as a mission territory and establish a monastery. Thus, the Prefecture Apostolic of Northern Transvaal was created, with Fr. Ildefons ...
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Abadía De San Benito
Abadía de San Benito, Luján, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, is a Benedictine monastery of the Cono-Sur Congregation. Originally established in Buenos Aires, the monastery became an abbey in 1950 and later transferred to the outskirts of Luján. As of 2020, the monastery was home to 13 monks, under the leadership of Abbot P. Jorge Moran. History In 1914, Fr Fermín de Melchor led a number of monks from the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, a Spanish monastery of the Solesmes Congregation, to Buenos Aires, Argentina to establish a monastic foundation. On December 8 of that year, the monks relocated to Bellocq, but by 1916 had found rural life untenable, and returned to Buenos Aires. In 1920, the monastic community began constructing a monastery. While at Buenos Aires, the work of the community included catechetics, the promotion of Gregorian Chant, and the publication of spiritual and liturgical literature (including sacramentaries, missals, and the reviews ''Pax'' and ''Rev ...
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