Then, as a choir chanted the Te Deum, Abbot Boultwood formally accepted the fealty of 37 monks from St. Anselm’s Abbey, the capital’s only Benedictine monastery. American-born and British ...

New Monasteries. They did not stay members long. She was paid a visit by a Trappist monk called Brother Leo (Christopher Gregory) of St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Mass. Brother Leo, whom she ...