ENGLAND.—Benedictine Monks.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 49, 5 December 1901, Page 24

ENGLAND.— Benedictine Monks.

'lln Boned h I mi* monks of Solesmes hay • now taken ii|i iheir quartets at \l>|)li*il\ii ( oinli.- Wroxall, Isle of Wmlit, <nnl ai c cairving on coniinimitv life as ,il Solcsincs The •',i ii , l»o)ii Mocipiordau , is the most .•a rued iiiiisicil scientist now living on the (J regot ia n chant of St (Jail's, ami he is especially. interested m the siuu i' which Irish monks ha<l in the ninlli <i-nlui'\ in cultivating the lituigieal (liant of the Church .hist hefun* the dissolution of Ihuske Abbey, Couiit.v Kilkenny, sevetal of the Jnsh ebon monks went to the monastery of Si .James at Ratisbon, and there t he\ perpetuated the Irish traditional foim of singing plain chant