St. Paul's Abbey

St. Paul's Abbey, Oosterhout, additionally Oosterhout Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Oosterhout, North Brabant, the Netherlands. St. Paul's Abbey became founded with the aid of clergymen from Wisques Abbey in Wisques within the Pas-de-Calais who were pressured to go away France by using the anticlerical regulations and popular feeling of the duration. The community settled to begin with in Belgium, in the beginning in Honnay and later in Montignies-Saint-Christophe. The Benedictine nuns of Wisques had already settled in Oosterhout inside the Onze-Lieve-Vrouweabdij and the abbot of Solesmes desired each groups near each other inside the same town.

The clergymen consequently offered 2 hectares of land nearby however had difficulties with the Dutch architect who become operating for the nuns. Eventually the new priory turned into constructed beneath the supervision of the architect Dom Bellot, and proved to be a masterpiece of brick structure, in addition to the architect's first fantastic paintings. The building became finished in 1907 and the community became raised to the fame of an abbey in 1910. Dom Jean de Puniet changed into the primary abbot.