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Subiaco Abbey is an American Benedictine monastery located in the Arkansas River valley of Logan County, Arkansas, part of the Swiss-American Congregation of Benedictine monasteries. It is home to thirty-nine Benedictine monks. The abbey and the preparatory school it operates, Subiaco Academy, are major features of the town of Subiaco, Arkansas.
This company approached the Swiss Benedictine monks in Indiana to send missionaries to Logan County Arkansas in 1878. These monks brought with them their Swiss Benedictine heritage of a monastery school. Until the First World War, numerous additional monks and recruits from Switzerland strengthened this educational tradition. [3] In 1887 the ...
Saint Anselm's Abbey (Washington, D.C.) St. Benedict's Abbey; 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 ...
Subiaco is a town [3] in Logan County, Arkansas, United States.The population was 572 at the 2010 census.. The town is named after Subiaco Abbey, which is located there, and which donated 80 acres (32 hectares) in the early 20th century for a townsite and railroad connection.
Edward Burgert OSB (October 15, 1887 Paris, Arkansas – January 23, 1968 Rufugio, Texas) was a Benedictine monk and the second Abbot of Subiaco Abbey in Arkansas.He would become known not only for his service in the Catholic Church as a monk, priest, scholar, and abbot, but also for his civic work as an educator and rural farmers' advocate.
Benedictine Sisters of Elk County, a Benedictine monastery located in St. Marys that closed in 2014. [74] Daylesford Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Paoli. [75] Saint Emma Monastery, a Benedictine monastery located in Greensburg. [76] Saint Vincent Archabbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Latrobe. [77]
The Benedictine sisters are well known as recording artists who produce chart-topping Gregorian chant and Catholic hymn albums. Sister Wilhelmina died on May 29, 2019 , at age 95, and was buried ...
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.