His is the first such election in the world, made possible only by a decree of the Holy See issued in 2022 which permitted lay Brothers to head religious communities which include priests.

[2] In 1889, Denis M. Bradley, the first bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, requested that Abbot Boniface Wimmer send monks to his diocese to create a school for French and Irish immigrants.

The present main abbey building was completed in 1955 to designs by Manchester architects Koehler & Isaak in the Colonial Revival style.

Serving as administrators, as faculty and staff members, and on the college's Board of Trustees, the monastery's approximately 30 monks work in the university.

Wollst, Maria, uns beispringen, Dass wir selig scheiden hin, Jungfrau, Mutter, Königin.