History

In 1933, six Benedictine monks of St. Meinrad Abbey in southern Indiana, plus lay teachers, staff and boarding students, transferred Jasper Academy in Jasper IN to Aurora. There they combined Jasper Academywith Fox Valley Catholic High School for Boys to form the new Marmion Academy. The original Benedictine community of six monks today is an Abbey of thirty-three monks: twenty-eight at Marmion Abbey and five at Marmion’s mission Priory of San José in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.