St. Bernard Abbey is a vibrant monastic community of Catholic men who follow the 1500-year Benedictine tradition of worship and work through daily prayer and various labors. The monks were sent to Alabama in the 1870's to serve the needs of German-Catholic settlers in the state. The Abbey in Cullman was founded on September St. Bernard Monastery29, 1891; it is the home of the monks where they live out the monastic life of leaving everything and following Christ.