OUR FIRST VIRAL PHOTOS: It was September of 1948 when Abbot Paul Nahlen set out to pick some cotton with the priests, brothers, and students of the Abbey boarding school. For two decades the Abbey had been trying to raise money to build a new Church, and Abbot Paul desperately wanted to see it completed. Many photos were taken that day, but two would become somewhat famous. By the time it was fully syndicated, the...(click to read more and see photos)

BELLS OF SUBIACO: Ask any former boarding student of Subiaco and they will tell you that one of the unspoken benefits to later college life is that because a Subiaco student can sleep through bells ringing every 15 minutes of his life, then he can sleep through ANYTHING in a college dorm! Over the years, only a few select Subiaco students have been able to climb the internal ladder in the tower to see the bells in their home...(click to read more and see photos)

ST. BENEDICT PAROCHIAL SCHOOL: People rightly associate Subiaco ABBEY with Subiaco ACADEMY, our primary apostolate that we date having begun in 1887. What people often fail to realize is that the Abbey actually had TWO educational endeavors operating at the same time on neighboring land for over one hundred years. It was in March of 1878 that the new parish of St. Benedict would be created when the monks first arrived in Arkansas. It was then ... (click to read more and see photos)

COMMUNICATION: In the earliest years of the founding of our Abbey in 1878, communication with our mother abbey (St. Meinrad in Indiana) and grandmother abbey (Maria Einsiedeln in Switzerland) was accomplished through the mail (which took lots of time) or sending a telegram (much quicker but requiring travel to neighboring large cities to send it). Since the monks ... (click to read more and see photos)