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St. Benedict's Abbey is an American community of monks of the Order of St. Benedict located in Atchison, Kansas. It was founded in 1857 to provide education to the sons of German settlers in the Kansas Territory.
They took up lodging beside Atchison's Benedictine monks, who had established a monastery in the town in 1856 and had built a small convent for the sisters. [1] In April 1864, two more sisters joined the group, arriving after being delayed in Hannibal, Missouri by Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession. [3]
Benedictine College is a private Benedictine liberal arts college in Atchison, Kansas, United States.It was established in 1971 by the merger of St. Benedict's College (founded 1858) for men and Mount St. Scholastica College (founded 1923) for women.
Sep. 14—The proposed founding of a new institution on the campus of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, will build a medical school for the training of osteopathic doctors from the ground up.
Chris Unger/Getty Images The nuns of Benedictine College have made it clear they do not approve of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement address. Butker, 28, delivered the ...
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Mary Aaker, a 2019 Benedictine graduate, said Butker’s remarks were “disheartening.” “All of that was boiled down to, ‘I bet you’re most excited to go out and start a family,’” she ...
It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas and sponsored by the St. Benedict's Abbey (monastery) and Mount St. Scholastica (convent) in Atchison, KS. [ citation needed ] It became Maur Hill–Mount Academy with the merger of the two long established schools: Maur Hill Prep School (1919) was an all-boys school and ...