The Benedictine Monks Abbey, close to the city of Victoria, is a special congregation of monks that arrived in Victoria in the XIXth century.

It is a place for spiritual retreats, placed on a wide prairie with 50 hectares where the monks perform their industrial crafts.

There they fabricate their famous Benedictine liqueurs, as well as royal jelly and honey.

Their cloisters have witnessed time go by, and those walls zealously preserve the formula for the fabrication of liqueurs that the Benedictines have been keeping for thousands of years.

A very important place within the abbey is that of the 1928 crypt which has in front of it an image of baby Jesus, who is the patron of the convent. The image has been carved in wood and polychromated, and is more than a 100 years old.

Two altars on both sides of the main altar are dedicated one to Saint Benedict, founder of the order, and the other one to Saint Theresa. In addition, the abbey has two oratories, one dedicated to Saint Joseph on the right, and the other one dedicated to the Virgin of Lujan, on the left.

If Victoria is a city with beautiful touristic attractions, this abbey of the Benedictine Monks, on the outskirts of it is worth a visit whichever each one’s believes are.