St. Benedictusberg Abbey
| St. Benedictusberg Abbey (The Abbey of Our Lady) |
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| Mamelisabdij / Abdij va Mameles (Dutch: Abdij Sint-Benedictusberg) (Limburgish: Abdij St. Benedictusberg) |
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St. Benedictusberg Abbey, Mamelis
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 Mamelis Abbey
Location of St. Benedictusberg Abbey in Limburg
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| Town or city | Mamelis, Vaals, Limburg |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Coordinates | 50°48′5″N 5°58′21″E / 50.80139°N 5.97250°ECoordinates: 50°48′5″N 5°58′21″E / 50.80139°N 5.97250°E |
St. Benedictusberg Abbey, also Mamelis Abbey, is a Benedictine monastery established in 1922 in Mamelis, a hamlet which administratively falls within Vaals, Netherlands. It is a rijksmonument.
Since 1951 St. Benedictusberg has belonged to the Solesmes Congregation, which is part of the Benedictine monastic confederation.
As part of Bismarck's power struggle (Kulturkampf) with the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, monastic orders had been forbidden to accept novices. The 1872 Jesuits' Law had banned the more assertively independent Catholic orders, and the Benedictines had in effect found themselves exiled. A change of pope in 1878 toned down Rome's confrontational approach, but the restrictions in Germany were relaxed only slowly, and during the 1870s large numbers of religious Catholic refugees from Germany had settled in the Netherlands and in Belgium.
In 1893, a number of originally German monks remained at Affligem Abbey in central Belgium, as part of this German monastic diaspora. In 1893 a group of them set off to found a monastery of their own, the Abbey of St. Clement in Merkelbeek, Dutch Limburg, close to the frontier with Germany. St. Clement's was the first Benedictine foundation to be authorised in the Netherlands following the Protestant Reformation, three centuries earlier. Subsequently these German monks founded (or re-founded) Kornelimünster Abbey (near Aachen) in 1906 and an abbey at Siegburg in 1914. These monasteries, like Merkelbeek itself, were at this time part of the German "pro-province" of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation.
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