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The Beginnings

- About Us
  - About Our Abbey
    
    Abbot's Welcome
    Abbey History
    
    The Beginnings
    
    Preface
    Father Nicholas Balleis
    Archabbot Boniface Wimmer
    Newark
    St. Mary's Church Sacked
    Bayley and Wimmer
    
    A Benedictine Monastery and School in Newark
    From Priory to Independent Abbey
    A New Abbot and a New Foundation
    Expansion in Manchester and Morristown
    The Beginnings of Benedictine Life and Education at Delbarton
    Postwar Growth and Tensions in Morristown and Newark
    Coming of Age in Morristown
    Two New Communities Face the Future
    St. Mary's Abbey at the Turn of the 21st Century
    Appendix and Bibliography
    
    Profiles of the Monks
    Prayer Schedule
    Directions to St. Mary's Abbey
  - Keep In Touch
    
    News
    Monthly Bulletin
    Abbey Blog - See Behind the Abbey Walls

The following pages are an effort to respond to several requests to provide novices, junior monks, oblates of St. Mary’s Abbey, visitors, retreatants, and curious friends, with some perspective on the community with which they are associated. Specifically, it is an attempt to explain how we got from one isolated Benedictine in a small German national parish in a small city, in a small state, to the several institutions of today in Newark and Morristown, New Jersey, and Manchester, New Hampshire. Begin by using the menu on the left hand side to navigate.