Keizersberg Abbey

The abbey was formally founded on 13 April 1899 as part of the Beuron Congregation,[2] under the first abbot,[3] Dom Robertus de Kerchove.

The foundation is perhaps best known in the English-speaking world under its French name, Mont César Abbey, for its connection both with Blessed Columba and with the reformer and ecumenist Dom Lambert Beauduin, who while a member of this community launched a liturgical movement in 1909 and began publishing the accompanying periodical Les Questions Liturgiques et Paroissiales the following year.

In 1914 the buildings were severely damaged by fire, and the monks took refuge in another Beuronese house, Maria Laach Abbey in the Rhineland, until after the end of the war.

[4] Dom Bruno (Henri Reynders), famous for hiding many Jewish children from the Nazis during World War II, was a monk of Mont César from 1922 until 1968.

By 1948 it was sufficiently restored to be able to set up a small community at Wavreumont in Stavelot, which was formally established as St. Remaclus' Priory on 21 June 1952.