Stanbrook Abbey Election

Abbess elect Andrea Savage, OSB, Stanbrook Abbey
One of the Stanbrook Oblates passed on to me the Notice of the Election of the new Abbess.

Our prayers and congratulations go to Sr. Andrea and the Community.

The election of Dame Andrea Savage, OSB, is another case continuing in a Great Tradition of Abbesses from Scotland.

There was Dame Laurentia McLachlan, Abbess 1931-53, was from Lanarkshire. Dame Joanna Jamieson, recently Abbess Emeritus, is from Glasgow.

Dame Andrea belongs to a Glasgow family. One of her brothers is a monk at Pluscarden Abbey in Elgin in Scotland, whilst another brother is a secular priest.

There is a long-standing family association with the Benedictines.

Ad multos annos!