In 1924, monks from the Archabbey of St. Ottilien in Bavaria — veteran missionaries from East Africa together with younger brothers from Germany — arrived in Newton under the leadership of Fr. Michael Heinlein, OSB, to recruit and train American monks for monastic and missionary life.
First called Little Flower Monastery, the community farmed the land, built a monastery-seminary, and grew steadily. In 1945 it sent its first missionary monks to South Africa, and two years later the monastery was raised to an abbey and took the name of St. Paul.
In 2001, six Korean monks of Waegwan Abbey came to Newton, renewing the community and making it the international family of American, Korean, and Tanzanian brothers it is today.
성 바오로 수도원은 1924년 독일 성 오틸리엔 대수도원에서 온 선교 수도자들이 뉴저지 뉴튼에 세운 공동체입니다. 처음에는 ‘작은 꽃 수도원’으로 불렸고, 1947년 대수도원(Abbey)으로 승격되었습니다. 2001년 왜관 수도원의 한국인 수도자들이 합류하면서 오늘날 미국·한국·탄자니아 형제들의 국제 공동체가 되었습니다.
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