St. Benedict Abbey (Massachusetts)
St. Benedict Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Still River in Harvard, Massachusetts. It is known for being centered on praying the Divine Office and the Novus Ordo Missae in Latin.
Chapel dedicated to St. Therese of Liseux
Harvard is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The town is located 25 miles west-northwest of Boston, in eastern Massachusetts. It is mostly bounded by I-495 to the east and Route 2 to the north. A farming community settled in 1658 and incorporated in 1732, it has been home to several non-traditional communities, such as Harvard Shaker Village and the utopian transcendentalist center Fruitlands. It is also home to St. Benedict Abbey, a traditional Catholic monastery, and for over seventy years was home to Harvard University's Oak Ridge Observatory, at one time the most extensively equipped observatory in the Eastern United States. It is now a rural and residential town noted for its public schools. The population was 6,851 at the 2020 census.
The renovated library, established in 1856
Harvard Shaker Village c. 1905
Old Stone Barn (c. 1915), in Harvard Shaker Village
Fruitlands Museum, 2008