New Abbey Press Publication
From Repatriation to Revival
Continuity and Change in the English Benedictine Congregation, 1795-1850
By Dom Alban Hood OSB
In the wake of the French Revolution, English Benedictine monks and nuns were forced to leave their monasteries in France and were repatriated in 1795 to England, over thirty years before emancipation was granted to Catholics there. By 1850, when the English Catholic hierarchy was restored, the English Benedictines were still not fully recovered from losses that had been sustained in terms of personnel, finance and property.