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Daylesford Abbey

Paoli, Italy

Daylesford Abbey

Daylesford Abbey is a Catholic monastery of Norbertines in Chester County, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles west of Philadelphia. The abbey is named after Daylesford, Pennsylvania, where the Norbertines established the foundation that developed into the abbey. It is one of two Norbertine abbeys founded

by Abbot Bernard Pennings of De Pere, Wisconsin. Pennings was a Norbertine sent from Berne Abbey, Netherlands, who founded the Norbertines in the United States.

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