Downside Abbey : Habemus Abbatem
Dom Nicholas Wetz has been elected Abbot of Downside Abbey and has announced that the community will leave Stratton-on-the-Fosse.
Gerleve Monastery, cropped | By Carschten, CC BY-SA 3.0 de | link |
Father Christophorus Hildebrandt OSB
Gerleve Abbey
Billerbeck, GERMANY
20 August 2020
Abbot Ricardo Tintos Delgado at the Congress of Abbots, Rome, 2016
Abbot Ricardo Tintos Delgado OSB
Tepeyac Abbey
Izcalli, MÉXICO
14 July 2020
Fr. Marion Nguyen, student of Sant’Anselmo, elected abbot
Directly before his election, Abbot Marion Qui-Thac Nguyen was a resident of Collegio Sant'Anselmo as he pursued a doctorate in Monastic Theology at the Pontifical University. Read his remarkable story here.
Abteikirche St. Martin, Beuron, Gnadenkapelle, Ausmalung P. Paulus Krebs, 1898-1904, Symbol des Evangelisten Markus, cropped, color adjusted Photo: Andreas Praefcke - Self-photographed, Public Domain |link|
Brother Vincent Mack OSB
Beuron Archabbey
Beuron, GERMANY
12 June 2020
Garden of Seitenstetten Abbey, Lower Austria By Uoaei1 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, |link|
Father Leopold Steininger OSB
Seitenstetten Abbey
Seitenstetten, Lower Austria, AUSTRIA
6 June 2020
Julian Schaumlöffel Appointed New ICBE President
Fr. Julian Maria Schaumlöffel, O.S.B., the new president of the International Commission on Benedictine Education, is from Königsmünster Abbey in Meschede, Germany. Read the full biography and story here.
Innenraum des Kloster Mariastein, cropped By EinDao - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 |link|
Father Bonifaz Born OSB
Kloster Mariastein
Metzerlen-Mariastein, SWITZERLAND
5 May 2020
Benediktinerstift Muri-Gries mit Kirche St. Augustin By Vollmond11 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, |link|
Father Andreas Schildknecht OSB
Monastery of Muri-Gries
Bolzano, South Tyrol, ITALY
3 May 2020
The Annunciation: Mary sitting : Anonymous | Rijksmuseum Public domain |link|
Father Adrian W. Harmening OSB
Mary Mother of the Church Abbey
Richmond, Virginia, USA
18 May 2020