Mosteiro de São Bento
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Capela do Santíssimo Sacramento | By Halley Pacheco de Oliveira – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
History
Founded : 1590 (from the São Sebastião em Salvador Archabbey)
Abbey : 1596
Restoration : 1907 (from the Beuron Congregation)
Territorial Abbey : 1907-1934; 1948-2003
Community
Abbot : Filipe Da Silva
Congregation : Brasilian
Monks : 34
Dependent houses : 1
Activity
Guest House, Liceu São Bento (since 1858); Faculty of Philosophy and Theology (from 1921); Lumen Christi Publishing House and Bookshop; Social work
Basilio da Silva
Student
Pontifical Gregorian University
Photos used with permission of Dom Agostinho de Oliveira OSB
