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Driana Enid Wybourne (April 1954 – 24 February 2022), [1] professed as Sister Catherine Wybourne OSB, was a British Benedictine nun and prioress (from 2004) of Howton Grove Priory, Hereford (formerly Holy Trinity Monastery, East Hendred). She was also a well-known commentator in the British media, with an internet presence as the Digitalnun.
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 .
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.
It was first recorded in 1122 as an institution for nine nuns and a prioress - around the time of its Dissolution the priory's own tradition was that it had been founded by Maurice or Richard de Belmeis I, though the antiquarian John Leland believed it had been a co-foundation by William of London and William Roscelin.
Westwood Priory (priory of St. Mary) was a priory of Benedictine nuns founded in 1153, [1] near Droitwich, Worcestershire, England It was a daughter house of Fontevraud Abbey , seized by the English crown in 1537 during the Dissolution of the monasteries .
In July 1988 the community of nuns moved to a much smaller property in Curzon Park, Chester, where they also have a small retreat house. The main Abbey building is a converted late 19th Century mansion constructed mainly of red brick. A chapel was built on the Curzon Park Abbey site in 1997.
The community is made up of professed monks and nuns, novices, and 'alongsiders'. Alongsiders live with the community [12] for a variety of reasons, ranging from exploring a possible monastic vocation, to a simple desire to experience the monastic life for a while. Alongsiders stay with the community for between one and twelve months and while ...
Godstow Abbey was built on what was then an island between streams running into the River Thames. The site was given to the founder Edith de Launceline, in 1133 by John of St. John [8] Edith was the widow of William and she had been living alone in Binsey in Oxfordshire, before deciding to found a group of nuns. [9]