Saint Louis Abbey
Abbey Church
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| Monastery information | |
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| Full name | The Abbey of St. Mary and St. Louis |
| Order | Benedictine |
| Established | 1955 |
| Mother house | Ampleforth Abbey |
| Dedicated to |
Virgin Mary St. Louis, King of France |
| Diocese | St. Louis |
| Controlled churches | St. Anselm's Oratory of Ss. Gregory and Augustine |
| People | |
| Founder(s) |
Rt. Rev. Columba Cary-Elwes Rt. Rev. Luke Rigby Rev. Timothy Horner |
| Abbot | Rt. Rev. Thomas Frerking |
| Prior | Rev. Gerard Garrigan |
| Site | |
| Location | Creve Coeur, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 38°38′39″N 90°28′44″W / 38.6442°N 90.4789°WCoordinates: 38°38′39″N 90°28′44″W / 38.6442°N 90.4789°W |
The Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Louis is an abbey of the Roman Catholic English Benedictine Congregation (EBC) located in St. Louis County, Missouri United States. The Abbey is an important presence in the spiritual life of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. The monks of the Abbey live their faith according to the Benedictine discipline of 'prayer and work', praying the Divine Office five times daily, celebrating daily Masses in English and Latin, and working in the two parishes under their pastoral care and in the Saint Louis Priory School, which the Abbey runs as an apostolate. The Abbey and its school sit on a 150-acre (0.61 km2) campus in west St. Louis County, in the city of Creve Coeur.
Saint Louis Abbey was founded in 1955 as a priory of the Benedictine Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire, England, which dispatched three monks to plant a new foundation in St. Louis. They came at the invitation of Cardinal Joseph E. Ritter and a group of prominent St. Louis lay Catholics, who desired a boys' school in their community run according to the English Benedictine educational tradition. Those original three monks, Father Columba Cary-Elwes, Fr. (later Abbot) Luke Rigby, and Fr. Timothy Horner, arrived in St. Louis in the summer of 1955 and set about the formation of a new monastic community, with Fr. Columba serving as the community's founding prior and Fr. Timothy serving as the Priory School's founding headmaster.
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