St. Benedict’s Monastery held its final public Mass on Jan. 11, with four of the five remaining monks transferring to other ...
People walk into the St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass for the monastery’s last public liturgy on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. The monastery was sold to Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, for $120 million.
The monks who laid the first bricks of St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass built their chapel and cloisters in the 1950s to stand through centuries of Catholic worship and prayer. The ones who ...