Rev. Douglas Mosey

Mother Benedict

History & Biography

“Vatican II had a message for religious: Return to the spirit of your founders and foundresses. Certainly Lady Abbess Benedict Duss, O.S.B. did that. As was true for St. Benedict, troubles beset her from within and without. Through suffering, and though take back responses, challenges, and what would appear as unreasonable demands, she never wavered from the vision that became clear to her and was symbolized by the star on the jeeps of General Patton's army and later built into the floor of the chapter room at Regina Laudis. Always pointing to Christ she said of Him and of those called to be His spouses, that this way of life is to embrace the cross, that this way of life is a contradiction to the world. From my experience with Lady Abbess and the Nuns who have been drawn to the Abbey she founded in the United States of America, I can enthusiastically endorse this gripping account as related by Antoinette Bosco.”