Order of St Benedict Community of St Mary at the Cross, Edgware OSB Founded 1866 St Mary at the Cross Priory Field Drive, Hale Lane, Edgware Middlesex, HA8 9PZ, UK Tel: 020 8958 7868 Fax: 020 8958 1920 Email: nuns.osb.edgware@btclick.com Registered Charity: No. 209261

With its dedication to St Mary at the Cross, this community has a special vocation to stand with Christ's Mother beside those who suffer. From its earliest days in Shoreditch, where Mother Monnica Skinner and Revd Henry Nihill worked together as co-founders, the sisters were drawn to the seperately poor and sick people around them. Awareness of the needs of many 'incurable children', led to the building of a hospital, marking the beginning of the community's life work.

Time passes and needs change; over the years the community's work has evolved to meet the present needs of elderly frail people for nursing or residential care. This care provision continues in Henry Nihill House at Edgware Abbey, where Residents enjoy close links with the community, its worship and its life.

From its foundation, the heart of the community's vocation lay in prayer; the Divine Office and the Eucharist were and are central to its life, love finding its expression in a care for those in need. Today many people are welcomed at the abbey, finding there a place of peace; all are offered Benedictine hospitality and given space for rest and renewal, with the opportunity to share in the community's worship.

Rt Revd Dame Mary Thérèse Zelent OSB
(Abbess, elected 30 March 1993)
Very Revd Dame Mary Eanfleda Barbara Johnson OSB (Prioress)

For further details, obtain a copy of
The Anglican Religious Communities Year Book