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The monastery at Subiaco in Italy, established by Benedict of Nursia c. 529, was the first of the dozen monasteries he founded. He later founded the Abbey of Monte Cassino . There is no evidence, however, that he intended to found an order and the Rule of Saint Benedict presupposes the autonomy of each community.
The Rule of St. Benedict mandated the moral obligations to care for the sick. So in Monte Cassino St. Benedict founded a hospital that is considered today to have been the first in Europe of the new era. Benedictine monks took care of the sick and wounded there according to Benedict's Rule. The monastic routine called for hard work.
Saint Emma Monastery; St. Gregory's Abbey, Three Rivers; Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville; Saint Joseph Abbey (Louisiana) Saint Leo Abbey; Saint Louis Abbey; St. Martin's Abbey, Washington; Saint Meinrad Archabbey; St. Paul's Abbey (New Jersey) Saint Vincent Archabbey; Savannah Priory; St. Andrew Abbey; St. Gregory's Abbey (Oklahoma) Subiaco ...
Mission to America: A History of Saint Vincent Archabbey, the First Benedictine Monastery in the United States. Washington: Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 0-8132-0957-9. Curran, Kathleen (2003). The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange. State College: Penn State University Press. ISBN 9780271022154.
The monastery, dedicated to Saints James and Benedict, was founded in around 739/740 as a Benedictine abbey by members of the Huosi, a Bavarian noble clan, who also provided the three brothers who served one after the other as the first three abbots, traditionally named as Lanfrid, Waldram (or Wulfram), and Eliland, for nearly a century.
St Augustine's Abbey or Ramsgate Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Ramsgate. [1] It was built in 1860 by Augustus Pugin and is a Grade II listed building. It was the first Benedictine monastery to be built in England since the Reformation. [2] In 2010, the monks moved to St Augustine's Abbey in Chilworth, Surrey.
The original monastery was founded in 361, at a site offered by the bishop Hilary of Poitiers, to Hilary's protégé Martin of Tours, to whom it was later dedicated.The site was described as "deserted" in early writings about the abbey, such as the account of the noted historian, Gregory of Tours, who made a pilgrimage to the abbey in 591 to honor his predecessor in the episcopal see.
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]