The Solesmes Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation

Benedictine Confederation

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 was founded in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI

Pope Gregory XVI

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 as the French Benedictine Congregation, with the newly reopened monastery of Solesmes Abbey under Dom Prosper Guéranger at its head. The Congregation's first nunnery was St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes

St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes

St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes is a Benedictine nunnery founded in 1866 by Dom Prosper Guéranger, the restorer of Benedictine life in France after the destruction of the revolution...

, founded in 1866 by Dom Prosper and Madame Cécile Bruyère

Cécile Bruyère

Madame Cécile Bruyère was the first abbess of St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes and a follower of Dom Prosper Guéranger in the revival of Benedictine spirituality in 19th century France.-Life:...

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The Congregation focuses particularly on the traditional Latin

Latin

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 liturgy

Catholic liturgy

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 and on Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant

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. One of its abbeys, Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey, became internationally famous when an album its monks recorded in 1973, Chant, became a huge hit when re-released in 1994, peaking at #3 on the U.S. album charts

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List of houses

with dates of foundation:

• Solesmes Abbey 1833
• Ligugé Abbey
  Ligugé Abbey
  Ligugé Abbey, also St. Martin's Abbey, Ligugé, is a Benedictine monastery in the present commune of Ligugé in the département of Vienne, and in the diocese of Poitiers, and one of the earliest monastic foundations in France.-First foundation:...
  
   1853
• Marseilles Priory, now Ganagobie Abbey
  Ganagobie Abbey
  Ganagobie Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Ganagobie in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. It is part of the Solesmes Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation and as such focuses on Gregorian chant .-Cluniac priory:...
  
   1856
• Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey, Spain, 1880
• Wisques Abbey 1889
• St. Mary's Abbey, Paris 1893
• St. Wandrille's Abbey
  Fontenelle Abbey
  Fontenelle Abbey or the Abbey of St. Wandrille is a Benedictine monastery in the commune of Saint-Wandrille-Rançon near Caudebec-en-Caux in Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France.-First foundation:...
  
   1894
• Clervaux Abbey, Luxembourg 1890
• Kergonan Abbey, 1897
• St Benoît du Lac Abbey
  Saint Benedict Abbey, Quebec
  Saint Benedict Abbey, in an Abbey in Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada, and was founded in 1912 by the exiled of St. Wandrille, France under Abbot Dom Joseph Pothier, liturgist and scholar who reconstituted the Gregorian chant...
  
  , Quebec, 1912
• Quarr Abbey
  Quarr Abbey
  Quarr Abbey is a monastery between the villages of Binstead and Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The name is pronounced as "Kor" . It belongs to the Order of St Benedict. The present imposing brick construction was completed in 1912. A community of about a dozen monks maintains...
  
  , England 1922
• Montserrat Priory, Madrid, 1939
• Schoelcher Priory, Martinique 1947
• Fontgombault Abbey
  Fontgombault Abbey
  Fontgombault Abbey is a Benedictine monastery of the Solesmes Congregation located in Fontgombault in the département of Indre, in the province of Berry, France.-History:...
  
  , 1948
• Vaals Abbey, Netherlands, 1951
• Leyre Abbey, Spain, 1954
• Valle de los Caidos Abbey, Spain, 1958
• Keur-Moussa Abbey, Senegal 1961
• Randol Abbey
  Randol Abbey
  Randol Abbey is a Benedictine monastery situated at Randol near the village of Saint-Saturnin, Puy-de-Dôme department, in the Auvergne mountains of France....
  
  , 1971
• Triors Abbey
  Triors Abbey
  Triors Abbey is a Benedictine monastery situated at Châtillon-Saint-Jean in the Drôme, Rhône-Alpes, France.It was founded in 1984 as a priory of Fontgombault Abbey in an 18th century château bequeathed to the monks for that purpose. Major building works took place from 1990. Triors was raised to...
  
  , 1984
• Gaussan Priory
  Gaussan Priory
  Gaussan Priory is a Benedictine monastery situated at Bizanet in the Aude, France.-Cistercians:The site was originally established in the 12th century by the Cistercians as a grange of the nearby Fontfroide Abbey...
  
  , 1994
• Palendriai Priory, Lithuania, 1998
• Clear Creek Abbey
  Monastery of Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek
  Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek Abbey or Clear Creek Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey in the Ozark Mountains near Hulbert, Oklahoma.Clear Creek Abbey was founded in 1999 by monks from the Abbey of Fontgombault, France, itself founded in 1091...
  
  , USA, 1999

Nunneries:

• St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes
  St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes
  St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes is a Benedictine nunnery founded in 1866 by Dom Prosper Guéranger, the restorer of Benedictine life in France after the destruction of the revolution...
  
   1866
• Wisques Abbey, 1889
• St. Michael's Abbey, Kergonan,
• Ste Marthe sur le Lac Abbey, Quebec 1936
• St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde
  St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde
  St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde is an abbey of Benedictine nuns in the Isle of Wight, England....
  
  , England 1950
• Keur-Guilaye Priory, Senegal 1970
• Le Carbet Priory, Martinique 1977
• Westfield Priory, USA, 1981