St. Gregory the Great | Downside Abbey
Stratton-on-the-Fosse, England
Details
History
Foundation : 1606 in Douai in Flanders (Belgium) for English monks of the Congreg. of Valladolid (Spain) to carry out the mission among Catholics in England after the persecution of the s. XVI and transferred to Downside in 1814.
Church and monastery : since 1870
Abbey : since 1899
Community
Congregation : English
Abbot : Fr. Nicholas Wetz
Monks : 13
Activity
Hospitality; Education; Parishes; Exercises; Library service; Study of Philosophy and Theology
Residents of the Collegio
David Foster
Professor of philosophy, Greek and Latin, Choir master, Junior master
Faculty of Philosophy
Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo
John George
Student
Monastic Studies
Faculty of Theology
Pontifical Athenaeum Sant’Anselmo
Photos used with the permission of Dom Anselm Brumwell
