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The Sixteenth through the
Nineteenth centuries saw first a great diminishment and then a revival of
European monasteries. After many wars and the Protestant Reformation, which
caused the destruction or dissolution of monastic and other religious
communities, a more peaceful time and supportive monarchs encouraged the
rebuilding of Benedictine monasteries, such as St. Walburga’s Abbey in
Eichstatt, Bavaria. From the renewed Benedictine monasteries of women and
men, Sisters and monks were called to go to minister to their country folk
who had moved to the “New World.” Once again monastics became missionaries.
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