Santa Maria de la Vid Abbey

The Norbertine Community of Santa Maria de la Vid Abbey is the second youngest Abbey in the Order of Premontre. Founded in 1985 as a foundation of St. Norbert Abbey in DePere, Wisconsin, it was elevated to a Canonry (self governing body) on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 2011. It was elevated to the status of an Abbey on August 2nd, 2012, the highest state a house can hold in our ancient order.

The Norbertine Order is over 900 years old, one of the oldest Roman Catholic religious orders in the world. In the valley of Premontre in France, a small group of men gathered on Christmas Eve, 1121. Led by Norbert of Xanten in Germany, they committed themselves to God, to one another, and