St Benedictusberg Abbey

St. Benedictusberg Abbey, additionally Mamelis Abbey, is a Benedictine monastery set up in 1922 in Mamelis, a hamlet which administratively falls inside Vaals, Netherlands. It is a rijksmonument. As part of Bismarck's power battle with the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, monastic orders were forbidden to accept novices. The 1872 Jesuits' Law had banned the more assertively unbiased Catholic orders, and the Benedictines had in effect determined themselves exiled.

A exchange of pope in 1878 toned down Rome's confrontational approach, however the restrictions in Germany were cozy most effective slowly, and throughout the 1870s huge numbers of spiritual Catholic refugees from Germany had settled in the Netherlands and in Belgium. In 1893, a number of at the start German priests remained at Affligem Abbey in valuable Belgium, as part of this German monastic diaspora. In 1893 a set of them set off to discovered a monastery of their very own, the Abbey of St. Clement in Merkelbeek, Dutch Limburg, near the frontier with Germany. St. Clement's changed into the primary Benedictine foundation to be approved within the Netherlands following the Protestant Reformation, 3 centuries earlier.