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Benedictine monastery in Pennsylvania
Saint Vincent Archabbey is a Benedictine monastery in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the city of Latrobe . A member of the American-Cassinese Congregation , it is the oldest Benedictine monastery in the United States and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The shrine is dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul .
Pope Pius XII raised the monastery church to the status of a Minor basilica via his decree Quasi fons lucis on 25 August 1955.
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The Benedictine monks of Saint Vincent operate and teach at Saint Vincent Basilica Parish, Saint Vincent College , and Saint Vincent Seminary . The monks also provide pastoral care for Catholics in the dioceses of Baltimore , Greensburg , Pittsburgh , Harrisburg , Altoona-Johnstown , and Richmond . The monks also run a military school from the Savannah Priory in Savannah, Georgia (Benedictine Military School ).[1] [2]
The original abbey structures, including the present church, were designed by the German-American architect J. William Schickel and built between 1891 and 1905. The archabbey church was dedicated by bishop Regis Canevin of Pittsburgh on August 24, 1905[3] minor basilica by Pius XII on the same date in 1955. [4]
The monks operate St. Vincent Archabbey Gristmill , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[5]
Monks from the abbey founded Newark Abbey (Newark, New Jersey) (founded as St Mary's), Saint John's Abbey (Collegeville, Minnesota), Saint Bernard Abbey (Cullman, Alabama), Saint Benedict Abbey (Atchison, Kansas), Saint Mary's Abbey (Morristown, New Jersey), Saint Bede Abbey (Peru, Illinois), Saint Procopius Abbey (Lisle, Illinois), and Mary Help of Christians Abbey (Belmont, North Carolina).
Saint Vincent's Basilica Panorama
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The current archabbot of St. Vincent Archabbey is Martin de Porres Bartel , who was elected by the monastic community on June 23, 2020. He is the twelfth archabbot of Saint Vincent. Bartel succeeded the Rt. Rev. Douglas R. Nowicki .
Over its almost 200 years of existence, the archabbey has had twelve archabbots:
References
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^ "Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica: One Hundred Years | Article Archive" . www.sacredarchitecture.org . Retrieved September 13, 2022 .
^ Pius XII, Pope (August 24, 1955). "AD TITULUM ET DIGNITATEM BASILICAE MINORIS EVEHITUR TEMPLUM S. VINCENTII A PAULO, APUD LATROBE DIOECESIS GREENSBURGENSIS EXSTANS" (PDF) . Acta Apostolicae Sedis 607 .
^ "National Register Information System" . National Register of Historic Places National Park Service . July 9, 2010.
Additional sources
Oetgen, Jerome (2000). Mission to America: A History of Saint Vincent Archabbey, the First Benedictine Monastery in the United States . Washington: Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 0-8132-0957-9
Curran, Kathleen (2003). The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange . State College: Penn State University Press. ISBN 9780271022154
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