Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica are an education-focused Benedictine religious community in Atchison, Kansas. The monastery founded Mount St.Scholastica College, a women's college which merged with St. Benedict's College in 1971, forming what is now Benedictine College. [1]
It is located on bluffs overlooking the Missouri River, northwest of Kansas City, Missouri. Benedictine is one of a number of U.S. Benedictine colleges and is sponsored by St. Benedict's Abbey and Mount St. Scholastica Monastery. The abbey has a current population of 53 monks, while the Mount monastery numbers 147 community members.
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.
Mother Benedicta Riepp, considered the founder of Benedictine women's communities in the United States, is buried in the monastery cemetery. [3] Seven sisters from the convent moved to Atchison, Kansas, where they founded the Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica. [4]
WHAT IS BENEDICTINE COLLEGE? Benedictine College is a Catholic college in Atchison, Kansas, that traces its roots to 1858. It is located about 60 miles north of Kansas City., and has an enrollment of about 2,200. LOTS OF COLLEGES ARE CATHOLIC. WHAT MAKES IT DISTINCTIVE? In some ways, Benedictine College sounds like a typical Catholic college.
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 ...
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 ...