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History
Mount
St. Benedict
W
hen the first monks, led
by Dom Ambrose Vinckier
OSB, arrived on October
6, 1912 at the site selected
Artist: Marie de Boissière
Adrian Camps-Campins
for them by the Right Reverend Dom Mayeul
de Caigny OSB a year earlier, they found only
a tiny mud hut with a thatched roof. Within
two years, on August 14, 1914, after the monks
had cleared the land and erected temporary
rooms for their domestic use, the first little
chapel was consecrated. The new foundation
was granted the status of a Conventual Priory
on March 6, 1915, and was dedicated to Our
Lady of Exile.
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