Saint Benedict Abbey
Atchison, Kansas, USA

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History

Foundation : 1857
Priory : 1858
Abbey : 1876

Community

Congregation : American Cassinese
Abbot : Fr. James Robert Albers
Monks : 39
Dependent house : 1

Activities

High school and college; Parish; Oblate chaplaincy in the prison and prison chaplaincy

Resident of the College

Daniel McCarthy

Professor
Pontifical Institute of Liturgy
Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo

A Day In the Life

From the YouTube channel KansasMonks

On the internet

More links

Year in review
https://youtu.be/av2OwpLXEVs?t=5897

Academic publications in liturgy, church architecture and Latin
https://www.kansasmonks.org/danielmccarthy

Kansas Monks magazine
https://www.kansasmonks.org/archive

Weekly videos: 60 Seconds for Sunday; Communio
https://www.kansasmonks.org/videos

 

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Photos used with permission of St. Benedict’s Abbey, www.kansasmonks.org

Abbey aerial view

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Abbey Church

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Fresco

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Abbey Church, view from the nave

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Abbey Church fresco

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Abbey Church, viewed from the nave

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Altar

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Church, viewed from the altar

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Church

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Church crucifix at night

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Church crucifix

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Crucifix

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Cemetery crucifix

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