Benedictines in Nodaway County in 1880: Comings & Goings

The US Federal Census for Nodaway County records forty-eight Benedictine men & women in Conception and six in Maryville in 1880. Filled with both a missionary spirit and an independent one as well, these men and women spread monastic life throughout the United States. Join historian Brother Thomas from Conception Abbey for a prosopographical study of the names of the monks & nuns who lived there in the 1880s.