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8 unusual facts about Order of Saint Benedict


38–39 Bayley Lane

The property belonged to the Benedictine Priory and the earliest-known tenant was Robert Allesley, a girdler.

Benet Perceval

Dom Benet Perceval, OSB (1916 – 2009) was the oldest member of the monastic community at Ampleforth Abbey, England, when he died at age 92 on 30 January 2009.

Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza

Later he was taught by the Benedictine monk Frei Estevao from the monastery of Cucujaes.

Essenbæk Abbey

Essenbæk Abbey (Essenbæk Kloster) was a Benedictine abbey located north of Assentoft, Denmark.

Magnus Wenninger

Father Magnus J. Wenninger OSB (born Park Falls, Wisconsin, October 31, 1919) is a mathematician who works on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction.

Riaumont

Its states an attribute of a twofold origin: Benedictine (the monks are Benedictine Oblates) and the scout movement.

Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg

Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg is first mentioned in 1190 as Rudolfstetin in a deed to the Benedictine Engelberg Abbey.

Vienenburg

In 1174 the Counts of Wohldenberg established a Benedictine monastery at their ancestral seat west of Vienenburg, which converted into a Cistercian nunnery a few years later, confirmed by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1188 and by Pope Honorius III in a 1216 deed.


Aelred Sillem

Sillem was educated at Haileybury and Magdalen College, Oxford, and received the habit at the Benedictine abbey of St Gregory, Downside, in 1929.

Bishops of Freising and Archbishops of Munich and Freising

St. Corbinian (724–730); founded the Benedictine abbey in Freising, although the diocese was not organized until 739)

Bogusław Radoszewski

Born around 1577 at Siemikowice, he became the abbot of Order of Saint Benedict monastery Święty Krzyż on Łysa Góra, he was the Bishop of Kijów (Kiev) from 1619 to February 1633, and afterwards Bishop of Łuck (Lutsk).

Casimir Freschot

Born in Morteau around 1640, he became a novice in the benedictine Saint-Maur congregation, and was ordained on Marc 20, 1663 in the Saint-Vincent de Besançon monastery.

Church of St Andrew, Old Cleeve

In the 12th century Robert FitzGerold gave the church to Bec Abbey in Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France, a Benedictine monastic foundation in Eure.

Giuseppe Placido Nicolini

Monsignor Giuseppe Placido Maria Nicolini O.S.B. (1877-1973), born Villazzano, Italy, was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Assisi from 1928-1973.

History of St. Cloud Hospital

In 1852, several Catholic nuns of the Order of St. Benedict immigrated to America from a convent in Eichstätt, Germany.

Kneitlingen

Kneitlingen in the medieval Duchy of Saxony was first mentioned in an 1135 deed issued by Emperor Lothair III, whereby he granted the estates to the newly established Benedictine abbey of Königslutter.

Lapley

Lapley Priory was a community of Black Monks (Benedictines), endowed c.1061, in the time of Edward the Confessor, by Alfgar, Lord of Mercia and Chester, in memory of his third son Burchard who died in Reims while returning from a pilgrimage to Rome with Aldred Archbishop of York.

Louis Casartelli

His appeal was rejected and he wrote to Abbot Francis Aidan Gasquet O.S.B. "if the wish did not sound rather an impiety one could almost desire that Cardinal Gotti might have held me suspect of Liberalism and other dreadful things" (1 September 1903).

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.

Philippe Chéry

He painted 'The Annunciation' in the church of Generville, 'St. Benedict receiving the Viaticum,' and two other religious subjects, which are in the church of Boulogne-sur-Mer, 'St. Cecilia,' in the Benedictine Convent in the same town, and several other scriptural and religious subjects.

Princess Alice Bank

In gratitude for the discovery, King Carlos awarded the prince with the "grand collar" of the Order of Santiago, having already granted in 1894 to Captain Henry Carr the honorific degree of master of the Order of St. Benedict.

Seacourt

The earliest known record of Seacourt is from 955, when King Eadwig granted 20 hides of land at Hinksey, Seacourt and Wytham to the Benedictine Abingdon Abbey.

Solesmes Abbey

Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes) is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe, France), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Guéranger after the French Revolution.

Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer

On 15 August 2012, the community of seventeen was granted canonical recognition as a Clerical Institute of Diocesan Right by Dom Hugh Gilbert, O.S.B.

St Swithun's Church, Worcester

The earliest documentary evidence of the church is in 1126 when Eudo, Dean of Worcester, gave permission for the nearby Benedictine priory to build a church on his land.

St. Agnes' Academy Legazpi City

The bishop sought the assistance of the Benedictine Missionary Sisters of Tutzing in Manila and asked them to take over the administration of the school.

Villemagne-l'Argentière

At the end of 7th century, the first monastery was founded by Clarinus Lubila, a monk of the order of Saint Benedict from Monte Cassino.

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.

Willigis Jäger

Willigis Jäger (born 7 March 1925 in Hösbach) is a German Benedictine monk, mystic, and Zen master, who trained and taught in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition (being given the Japanese name Koun-ken) until 2009, and then continued his own sangha independently.

Wing, Buckinghamshire

As early as the 7th century there was an abbey near the village at Ascott, that had been built by an unknown member of the House of Wessex royal family and given to a Benedictine convent in Angers.

Władysław the White

Afterwards he left on a long voyage or pilgrimage; he visited Malbork, Prague, Holy Land and Jerusalem, and finally went to France, where he met Pope Urban V in Avignon and finally in 1366 entered a Cistercian monastery in Cîteaux (the Cîteaux Abbey); however after a year he moved to the Order of Saint Benedict monastery in Dijon.


see also

Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis

priestly ordination - 3 October 1994: The Reverend Pater Emmeram of Thurn and Taxis, priest of the Order of Saint Benedict