Benedictine Abbey in Lemiers near Vaals

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Today I went to the Mount St. Benedict Abbey in Lemiers, The Netherlands. It is up in the Ardennes mountains near to Vaals.
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http://www.benedictusberg.nl/
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The Benedictine monks are really quite interesting. They are completely independent, not reporting to the Catholic church in Rome or anyone else. Some of them are even Anglicans. This is what Wikipedia has to say about them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictine_abbey
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