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Bethlehem Abbey

Bonheiden, Italy

Bethlehem Abbey

Bethlehem Abbey in the village of Bonheiden, Belgium, is a house of Benedictine nuns of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation. The monastery was built in 1965 as a Redemptorist house but was transferred to the Benedictines in 1975. The community formerly ran a publishing imprint which produced Dutch tr

anslations of the writings of Basil of Caesarea and Athanasius of Alexandria. Since 30 May 2015 the Benedictines have shared the monastery buildings with a lay community (the Moriya Community).

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