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unusual facts about Benedictine monks



Colégio de São Bento

Colégio de São Bento is managed by Benedictine monks, since the school was founded in 1858 on the hills overlooking Rio de Janeiro's harbor and the Guanabara Bay, adjacent to the Benedictine Monastery of Rio de Janeiro.

Lesmahagow

Lesmahagow Priory, founded by Benedictine monks in 1144, no longer stands but its foundations were excavated in 1978 and can be seen next to the Old Parish Church off Church Square.

Polirone Abbey

The abbey was founded in 1007 by Tedald, count of Canossa, the paternal grandfather of Matilda of Canossa, countess of Tuscany, with a grant to the Benedictine monks, of half his land lying between the rivers Po and Lirone, prompting the title "in Polirone".

Wąchock

This was due to the fact that both Bishops of Kraków (who owned nearby town of Bodzentyn), and Benedictine monks from the Łysa Góra monastery blocked any attempts at Wąchock's development.


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Conception Abbey

Conception Abbey was established 8 December 1873 by Benedictine monks of the Swiss abbey of Engelberg as a place of refuge should their monastery be suppressed by the Swiss government.

Jacques-Maurice De Saint Palais

De Saint Palais introduced to the diocese a foundation of Benedictine monks from the Swiss Abbey of Einsiedeln in 1849.

Krzeszów Abbey

It was settled with Benedictine monks descending from the abbey of Opatovice in Bohemia.

Lambert of Vence

He lost his mother at birth and was raised at the age of twelve years by the Benedictine monks of Lérins.

Mt. Angel, Oregon

Adelheim Odermatt, O.S.B., came to Oregon in 1881 with a contingent of Benedictine monks from Engelberg, Switzerland, in order to establish a new American daughter house.

Pill Priory

Pill Priory was founded as a daughter house of St Dogmaels Abbey (raised to Abbey status in 1120), near Cardigan, itself a priory of the Tironian order of reformed Benedictine monks.

Ribera del Duero

Wine has been produced in the region for thousands of years, but viticulture as we know it probably arrived in the Ribera del Duero region with Benedictine monks from Cluny in the Burgundy region of France in the twelfth century.

St. Stephen's Abbey, Würzburg

In 1057 Bishop Adalbero of Würzburg replaced the canons by thirty Benedictine monks from Ansbach.

Territorial Abbey of Tokwon

In 1952 some surviving Benedictine monks and sisters founded a new monastery in Waegwan near the town of Daegu in South Korea.

Trinity Benedictine Monastery

Trinity Benedictine Monastery is a small community of Benedictine monks in the town of Fujimi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.