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HEILIGENKREUZ, AUSTRIA - MAY 22, 2018: .
Cistercian monks inside Heiligenkreuz Abbey at the annual meeting of the Austrian Cistercian Order.

Heiligenkreuz Abbey is a Cistercian monastery in the village of Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna woods, 13 km north-west of Baden in Lower Austria. It is the oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world. Heiligenkreuz Abbey is known today as one of the most vibrant monasteries in central Europe; Many other monasteries send their junior monks to Heiligenkreuz for theological and monastic training. Presently, over 90 monks belong to the monastic community, the focus of which is the liturgy and Gregorian chant in Latin (in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite). Some of the monks also have pastoral duties in the 17 parishes for which the abbey is responsible or serve as professors at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule. Others serve in caring for the upkeep of the historic abbey. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

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