The first new monastery since the Reformation has opened in the Diocese of Meath, in the east of Ireland.
The Benedictine monastery, currently with eight monks, occupies Silverstream priory, the former residence of the Visitation Sisters, in Stamullen, Co Meath. The community came from Tulsa in the United States five years ago.
Bishop Smith of Meath signed a decree on Sunday “erecting the Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar as a monastic institute of consecrated life of diocesan right in the Diocese of Meath”.
