Abbey Church of Our Lady of Montserrat (San Beda College) Mass Schedule

In Manila, the Philippines on Mendiola Street sits the Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat, often known as Manila Abbey, a Benedictine men’s monastery. The monastery was founded by monks from Spain in 1895, in the final years of Spanish colonial era in the Philippines and is dedicated to Our Lady of Montserrat. In the 19th century, several anti-clerical governments in Spain took measures to suppress the many monasteries there. If they were not closed outright, communities were forbidden by the state to accept new candidates, with the goal of letting monastic communities die out. With time though, exceptions were established for monasteries which would operate in the far-flung countries still a part of Spain’s once formidable empire, primarily the Philippines.