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Founded in 1882 and dedicated to the Peace of the Heart of Jesus, St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight, belongs to the Benedictine Order, and in particular to the Solesmes Congregation of Dom Prosper Guéranger. [1] The nuns live a traditional monastic life of prayer, work and study in accordance with the ancient Rule of Saint Benedict.
Benedictine nuns cell founded c.1133-8 by John de Cranden, Prior of Ely with endowment confirmed by Stephen; destroye' 1313, 1376 and 1389; dissolved 1496 for the founded of Jesus College, Cambridge, which currently occupies the site The Priory Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Radegund: Chatteris Abbey: Benedictine nuns
The Abbey is the second largest Benedictine convent in England, after Ryde Abbey with twenty-eight. [68] Two remaining able-bodied nuns went to live at Wass from the dissolved Colwich Abbey (1656), evolved as a daughter house from the Cambrai foundation. [11]
The first Benedictine to live in the United States was Pierre-Joseph Didier. He came to the United States in 1790 from Paris and served in the Ohio and St. Louis areas until his death. The first actual Benedictine monastery founded was Saint Vincent Archabbey, located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Benedictine nunneries in England (1 C, 58 P) Pages in category "Benedictine monasteries in England" The following 168 pages are in this category, out of 168 total.
The English Benedictine Congregation (EBC) is a congregation of autonomous abbatial and prioral monastic communities of Catholic Benedictine monks, nuns, and lay oblates. It is technically the oldest of the nineteen congregations affiliated to the Benedictine Confederation .
The Anglican Benedictine community of nuns that has made its home at Malling Abbey since 1916 was founded in 1891 as an active parish sisterhood. The sisters worked among the poor in Edmonton , north London, until they became attracted to the Benedictine contemplative life through the preaching of Abbot Aelred Carlyle .
Downside Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in England and the senior community of the English Benedictine Congregation.Until 2019, the community had close links with Downside School, for the education of children aged 11 to 18.