2025Millennium of the Monastery of Montserrat, Barcelona - First Day Cover

This year, 2025, we will commemorate the millennium of the founding of the Monastery of Montserrat by Oliba, Abbot of Ripoll and Cuixà, and Bishop of Vic. History tells us that as early as 880, there was a small hermitage dedicated to the Virgin on Montserrat Mountain. It wasn't until a few decades later, in 1025, that a group of monks from Ripoll, sent by their abbot, built a Benedictine monastery next to the hermitage. Thus was born the Monastery of Montserrat, which has always been marked by this dual aspect: Benedictine monastery and Marian sanctuary. That is, a place of prayer, evangelical life, pilgrimage, and hope.