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E-mail & Phone Directory
If you wish to send an e-mail message to one of the monks listed below, then click on the appropriate name. If you wish to use a monk’s extension number, then dial the main switchboard number 815-223-3140 and dial the appropriate extension number after listening to the automated prompts. If you wish to bypass the automated prompts, then dial the monk’s direct phone number.
Visit St. Bede Abbey
Saint Bede Abbey and Academy | 24 West US Highway 6, Peru, IL, 61354
Saint Bede Abbey and Academy
24 West US Highway 6
Peru, IL, 61354
If you are traveling on Interstate 80 West, then one uses Exit 75, marked Illinois 251/Mendota-Peru
At the top of the exit ramp, turn LEFT.
You will be heading SOUTH on Route 251. You will remain on this road for about three miles going STRAIGHT at four stop lights.
Get into the right-hand lane after the second stop light.
Shortly after the fourth stop light is the exit for Route Six WEST/Spring Valley. The right-hand lane becomes the exit for Route Six.
At the top of the exit ramp, merge LEFT into traffic on Route Six.
Follow this road going straight at 2 sets of stoplights.
At the third set of stoplights, turn LEFT into St. Bede.
If one is traveling on Interstate 80 East, then one uses Exit 75, marked Illinois 251/Mendota-Peru. At the top of the exit ramp, turn RIGHT and follow the directions given for one who is traveling on Interstate 80 West.