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2110 St. Martin's Drive Rapid City, SD 57702 (605) 343-8011 www.blackhillsbenedictine.com Contact St. Martin Monastery |
| Every time you begin a good
work, you must pray to God most earnestly to bring it to perfection.
    - Prologue of the Rule of St. Benedict |
|     St. Martin Monastery was founded in
Sturgis, South Dakota in 1889 by five sisters from the Benedictine
Convent of St. Nicholas of Flue in Melchtal, Switzerland. The frontier
town offered few amenities to Mother Angela Arnet and her companions,
whose first home in Sturgis was an abandoned tavern.     Undaunted, within ten days of their arrival the sisters began a summer school. This was the beginning of St. Martin's Academy, which by 1916 had developed into a four-year high school that continued in operation until 1991. The sisters also staffed many of the parochial schools in the diocese of Rapid City, as well as schools in Casper, WY and Laguna Beach, CA. |
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