Together, We Rise. Founded in 1846 as the nation’s first Benedictine college, Saint Vincent College sits less than an hour east of Pittsburgh in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains. Congratulations to the Class of 2021!
Our Benedictine community took root in 1846, under the steady watch of founder Boniface Wimmer, a monk from Bavaria. Shortly after opening the school, Wimmer commissioned the construction of a gristmill. He purchased two sets of French grinding stones — buhrstones — from a quarry in the Marne Valley in northern France.