Benedictine monastery. The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about 540AD.

Benedictine Oblates. Oblates of St Benedict are people associated in a special way with a Benedictine monastery. They commit themselves to living the spirit of the Rule of St Benedict in their own state of life, as lay people, or even clerics, living in the world rather than in the monastery. Become an Oblate Learn More

In the chapel of St Benedict in Westminster Abbey is a stone tablet set beneath the carved head of a monk. The sculptor was Albert Siegenthaler and the memorial was given by the Nashdom Community and Bernard Petitpierre in memory of his wife Gwendoline who died in 1961.

Westminster Abbey is a community of Benedictine monks in Mission, British Columbia, established in 1939 from the Abbey of Mount Angel, Oregon. The abbey is home to the Seminary of Christ the King and is a member of the Swiss American Congregation within …

Benedictine monks founded Westminster Abbey in 960AD. To this day, we retain a tradition of Christian worship and welcome. Discover over ten centuries of British history in a building in the heart of London where worship takes place every day. The Abbey has been the coronation church since 1066, and is the final resting place of 17 monarchs.

A long-continued dispute with the canons of St. Stephen's, Westminster, was decided largely in favour of the abbey; Christchurch, Canterbury, gave their share of the common Benedictine hall at Oxford to the monks of St. Peter's, and the king was munificent in his benefactions and in the assistance he gave towards the completion of the new ...

At least 16 royal weddings have taken place at the abbey since 1100. Although the origins of the church are obscure, an abbey housing Benedictine monks was on the site by the mid-10th century. The church got its first large building from the 1040s, commissioned by King Edward the Confessor, who is buried inside.

It is the Spirit of God who teaches us the necessary sifting and discerning of culture and Gospel, of the secular and the sacred, of what is from God and what is from man. Here the Benedictine life attempts to manifest its priority by the holiness of its monks, the primacy of grace and attention to the things of the Spirit.

In the chapel of St Benedict is a stone tablet set beneath the carved head of a monk. The sculptor was Albert Siegenthaler.

Westminster Abbey is a monastery of Benedictine monks, brothers and priests. All Christians are called to love and serve God, to make God the first priority of their lives, to imitate Christ.