lYou're likely going to say big deal... there's already been too much info on the 2012 Congress of Abbots on the Communio blog. Well, you're correct. But a few statistics set a context.Meeting at the Primatial Abbey of Saint Anselm in Rome for the September 2012 Congress of Abbots, there were:
- 250 abbots
- 380 monasteries represented: 205 abbeys, 45 independent priories, 130 dependent priories
- 21 Benedictine Congregations of monks
- 7,358 monks represented
- 62 Benedictine Congregations of women
- 13,650 Benedictine nuns and sisters represented.
Father Luke MacNamara OSB, a monk of Glenstal Abbey (Ireland) oversaw the simultaneous translation work of 5 languages.
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