Brazilian Congregation

[3] In 1822 Brazil became independent from Portugal, and the Holy See, with the papal seal Inter gravissimas 1827, ordered the constitution of the Brazilian congregation.

At that time the entire congregation numbered only about twelve members, of whom eight were abbots of over seventy years of age.

[6] In 1893 Dom Gerard van Caloen (1853-1932), a monk of Maredsous Abbey, was commissioned by Pope Leo XIII to restore the monastic life of his fellow Benedictines in Brazil.

[7] In 1895, Caloen, and a group of monks from Maredsous arrived at the Abbey of São Bento in Olindo to begin the work of restoring it.

[10] The Abbey of the Resurrection in Ponta Grossa was founded from São Paulo in 1981, and is part of the Hispanic Province of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation.