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The founders of Conception Abbey were Fathers Frowin Conrad, O.S.B. (1833-1923), and Meinrad Widmer (1844-1901), of Lucerne, Switzerland. Frowin Conrad, named Placid at birth, was born in Auw, Canton Argau, Switzerland, on 2 November 1833, the eldest of twelve children, eleven boys and one girl.
All Saints Abbey (Kloster Allerheiligen) (dissolved), at Schaffhausen: Benedictine monks (1049/50-1529); Au Abbey (Kloster Au or Kloster in der Au), at Trachslau near Einsiedeln (Schwyz): initially 4 independent women's communities first documented in 1359; became a single community in Vordere Au c.1530; became Benedictine nuns in 1617 under Einsiedeln Abbey; raised to the status of abbey in ...
Frowin Conrad was born in Auw, Aargau, Switzerland, one of a family of fifteen. His family were farmers, and devoutly religious. He completed his secondary education in Engelberg and became a member of Engelberg Abbey in 1852. After he took his religious vows in 1856, he became a priest like his four brothers. After holding various offices in ...
Conception Abbey is a Benedictine monastery founded from the Swiss monastery Engelberg Abbey in 1873. According to its website, the abbey operates Conception Seminary College for the education of ...
The fortunes of Roman Catholic institutions in Switzerland were turbulent, especially in the 19th century. All were dissolved as a consequence of the French Revolution in 1798, but were restored by Napoleonic decree in 1803, with the exception of the Abbey of St. Gall , where the Prince-Abbot refused to make the necessary political concessions .
The abbey buildings were almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1729 but were rebuilt in a substantial style and so remain to the present day. In 1873 a colony from Engelberg founded Conception Abbey, at Conception, Missouri in the United States; in 1882, Mount Angel Abbey was founded near what is now Mount Angel, Oregon, also in the United States.
List of abbeys and priories is a link list for any abbey or priory. As of 2016 [update] , the Catholic Church has 3,600 abbeys and monasteries worldwide. [ 1 ]
On July 11, 1901, he was elected prior of Mount Angel and on February 3, 1904, after the priory was elevated to an abbey, he was elected the first abbot. Both elections took place under the presidency of Abbot Frowin Conrad of Conception Abbey.