 Together, they founded the Abbey of Waegwan, successfully continuing Benedictine monasticism on the Korean Peninsula.After an absence of fifty years, the monks of the Congregation of Missionary Benedictines of Saint Ottilien revived Holy Cross Abbey in 2001.As of 2011, the Chinese monastic community included two monks in perpetual vows (one of them ordained), two monks in temporal vows, and one postulant.