The Very Rev. Dom Aelred Graham in 1962, Prior from 1951-1967

The altar of the School\'s original chapel

Dom Andrew Jenks talking with Anthony Bessinger \'77 and Joseph Scanlan \'77

Dom Bede Gorman\'s whimsical lettering

Dom Bede Gorman coaching football

Dom Bede Gorman coaching Peter Thurber and Robert Walsh, 1946

Dom Bede Gorman with a student in the early years

William F. Buckley, Jr. chats with Dom Leo Van Winkle on the steps of St. Benet\'s House

The Chapel in the 1950s

Dom Luke Childs \'57 shares a moment with a fellow alumnus circa 1972

Dom Damian Kearney, the beekeeper

Monks in procession on a day of rogation, May 1946

Dom Hilary Martin

The Very Reverend Dom John Hugh Diman, Founder of Portsmouth Priory, on the porch of Manor House

Dom Leonard Sargent, 1941

Dom Andrew Jenks

Dom Bede Gorman

Dom Edmund Adams as a student in St. Aelred\'s

The new Church of St. Gregory the Great circa 1960

Dom Benedict Lang, O.S.B.

Dom Bede Gorman teaching Latin to Form II

Fr. Ben blessing an Abbey student, 2001

Dom Hilary Martin with Spot, his first border collie, tending to the cows

Dom Andrew in class with Carter Burden, Frank Nesbitt, William Oliver, and Richard Giegengack, 1958

Dom David Hurst in the classroom

Dom Andrew Jenks, O.S.B.

Dom John Mason and Dom Andrew Jenks at the chicken house

Dom Leonard Sargent, founder of the Monastery, purchased the land in 1918

The Monastic Refectory in 1944

The orginal chapel on campus

Fr. Mark Serna presiding over a solemn profession in 1994

The School Refectory in Manor House, 1943

Dom Hilary Martin in the Zen Garden that he designed adjacent to the Monastery, circa 1962

Prior Wulstan Knowles, Abbot of Fort Augustus, 1929

The Chapel in the 1950s

Program for the monks\' benefit concert of Gregorian chant at the Cloisters Museum, NY, 1947

Downside Abbey in England sponsored the establishment of Portsmouth Priory in 1919

In 1926, the Priory was transferred from Downside to Fort Augustus Abbey in Scotland

Damian Scholars T.J. Malloy \'92 and Brendan O\'Higgins \'93 with Dom Francis Davidson in 1989

Dom Damian Kearney \'45 chats with a student during a bicycle excursion

Dom Gregory and Dom Alban greet William F. Sands \'32

Dom Peter Sidler, Treasurer, in 1947

Dom Philip Wilson working at the gazebo

Dom Julian Stead \'43 and Dan Elliot

Feast of St. Benedict March 21, 1980

Headmaster John Hugh Diman, O.S.B. in 1926 (right)

Dom Luke Childs \'57 with Dom Wilfrid Bayne

The Monastic Community in 1975

The Monastic Community in 1996

Meinrad Burch\'s Stations of the Cross from the Church of St. Gregory the Great

Dom Benedict Lang (December 22, 1912 - October 22, 2006)

John Hugh Diman as a young man

Dom Joseph Byron and Dom Paschal Scotti