History
Adrian Camps-Campins
Mount St. Benedict Artist: Marie de Boissière
W
hen the first monks, led by Dom Ambrose Vinckier OSB, arrived on October 6, 1912 at the site selected
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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