St. Paul's Abbey, Oosterhout
St. Paul's Abbey, Oosterhout, also Oosterhout Abbey ( nl, Sint-Paulusabdij) is a former Benedictine abbey in Oosterhout, North Brabant, the Netherlands. History St. Paul's Abbey was founded by monks from :fr:Abbaye Saint-Paul de Wisques, Wisques Abbey in Wisques in the Pas-de-Calais who were forced to leave France by the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, anticlerical policies and popular feeling of the period. The community settled initially in Belgium, at first in Honnay and later in Montignies-Saint-Christophe. The Benedictine nuns of Wisques had already settled in Oosterhout in the ''Onze-Lieve-Vrouweabdij'' (:nl:Onze-Lieve-Vrouweabdij, Abbey of Our Lady, Oosterhout) and the abbot of Solesmes Abbey, Solesmes wanted both communities close to each other in the same town. The monks therefore bought 2 hectares of land nearby but had difficulties with the Dutch architect who was working for the nuns. Eventually the new priory was built under the super ...
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