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St. Gertrude's Monastery in Ridgely, Maryland is home to our community of 28 Benedictine Sisters — all living a life of communal prayer and work. We're located on 500 acres of farm  land on Eastern Shore and our ministries are as diverse as our sisters themselves. Many of us live and work here in Ridgely — both in Benedictine Programs and Services and through St. Martin's Ministries. But many of the sisters work in other areas, including Wilmington, Delaware and Washington, D.C.
St. Elizabeth School in Wilmington, Delaware is a school that the Ridgely Benedictines have staffed since it was founded in 1908 (Elementary) and the High School in 1940.
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We are involved in education, social work, health care, spiritual care, spiritual direction and out-reach to the rural poor.  You can learn more about us and what we do in the "Meet Our Sisters" section.
A Brief History
St. Gertrude's was established in 1887 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, but the beginnings of our community actually traces back to thirty years earlier. Abbot Boniface Wimmer had just assumed authority over the first American foundation of Benedictine women, St. Joseph Convent in St. Mary's, PA. In 1857, without the knowledge of Mother Benedicta Reipp, the prioress of the five-year-old community, the abbot sent six of her members and a postulant to staff St. Mary's School, a German parish in Newark, New Jersey.
Thirty years later, when the Newark convent ...
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