One of America's premier senior living communities, Villa St. Benedict is nestled on breathtaking grounds in Lisle, Illinois – conveniently located just west of Chicago. Co-sponsored by The Benedictine Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Benedictine Health System, we are a not-for-profit, faith-based community that is welcoming to all.
Residents enjoy a wealth of amenities and services,all designed to help free yourself from the tedious tasks of everyday life, creating more time and energy to cultivate new interests, travel and enjoying family and friends.
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Title: Villa St Benedict
Time: 9 min 57 sec
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moving out of one's home into a senior living community can be one of the most important decisions a person can make many people like the benefits of living at home such as gardening or enjoying an evening out on the patio but don't want the demands of maintaining a home for these folks Phyllis st. Benedict offers a vibrant alternative located in Lisle Illinois the Arboretum village this expansive senior community offers diverse opportunities to enjoy nature and achieve an enhanced quality of life join us as we learn about the important role villa st. Benedict played in Liles history and how nature can inspire and energize people throughout their lives hello my name is Judy strong and I'm the community relations liaison here at villa st. Benedict welcome to our campus we are located in Lisle at the corner of maple and the athlete and across the street from st. procopius Abbey Benedictine University and Bennett Academy you may know this corner as the Catholic four corners and we are proud to be part of the Benedictine tradition here in Lisle let me take you back to a time when the Benedictine sisters of the Sacred Heart first came out to this area it was 1912 the sisters had been living in Chicago amidst lots of noise and dust and they were looking for a place that would be tranquil and serene and a place that would offer them quiet reflection and and a place to pray so they follow the Benedictine men we come out to mile to found the college there was lots of farmland available at the time and there was even a train stop for the burlington railroad and Lisle Sacred Heart convent witches in the background here was opened in 1912 and started with sixty three sisters twelve novices and fourteen candidates part of the property was a and seventy-six acre farm called bana Dale and the sisters being city girls learned what farming was all about they had farm animals like chickens and ducks they actually plucked those chickens and made their own feather pillows they had a vegetable garden they had grapevines they had an apple orchard and they also had a herd of cattle and this operational firm stayed in existence till the late 1950s at that time the village of Lyle was in need of a space to build a school so been a Dale farm was closed and the sisters sold the property in 1920 st. Scholastica Cemetery was blessed and it is a tranquil spot close to nature where the deceased sisters are now buried in 1926 the sister started Sacred Heart Academy which was in the original convent and it opened with a class of 25 students it was a boarding school for girls and continued until 1967 when Bennett Academy then opened in 1930 an addition was put on to the convent for the Academy it was in a modified English Georgian style and the cost during the Depression was a mere fifty dollars also at the same time a renaissance Chapel was added to the Academy for the sisters and today our residents enjoy Sacred Heart Chapel in attending daily Mass seventy-five years later the chapel was rededicated in also saw a grotto being constructed it was designed by the sisters and is patterned after the Lord's grotto in France life continued for many years and in 1978 the sisters decided to expand their mission and start to care for seniors so in 1987 in the former Academy building they opened Queen of Peace Center which became home to 32 seniors in 1987 later in 2003 in keeping with the Benedictine tradition of hospitality the sisters vision and strategic plan gave us villa st. Benedict as we know it today there are seniors who make their home here some live independently in our villa homes others live independently in our four-story Villa Center the former Academy and Queen of Peace Center is now called been a Dale Center for assisted living and memory care for over a hundred years the sisters legacy has been a part of the village of Lyell and it continues today with Villa Saint Benedict join us now as we take a walking tour of our beautiful campus hello my name is Rob and I'll be giving you a ground tour of villa st. Benedict and Benedictine sisters Sacred Heart monasteries 47 acre property Villa Saint Benedict starts with beautifully landscaped entry signs to our property at this entrance sign at the corner of Jacqueline maple we have the first type of plants here with impatience salvia some canna some different cone flower and the black-eyed Susans with some 12 tall ornamental grasses Villa st. Benedict focuses on offering diverse wonderful opportunities to enjoy nature and enhance the quality of life for residents also great for the environment and supports diverse wildlife which creates an oasis in urban setting next stop is Villa st. benedict's residents raised vegetable gardens the residents have their own areas to plant various types of vegetables just steps away from the resident vegetable garden is where you can enjoy lunch on the Bistro patio or an evening dining by the fireplace on a lounge patio along the walking path is a grotto that was built in 1929 and completed in 1942 by employee of Benedictine sisters and the help from teenage orphans of st. Joseph's orphanage now called Bennett Academy High School most of the rock here to make the grotto was imported from Wisconsin and Missouri and excavated on the property here on Sacred Heart monastery grounds Villa st. benedict's landscape was installed in 2003 with over 150 evergreens and conifers 250 ornamental trees 400 stayed trees and 6400 shrubs over 6000 perennials and 2,000 flowering bulbs there is 4 detention cells located on the property the purpose of the detention cell is to capture stormwater and release the stormwater slowly back into the stream and rivers also each detention cell has over 100 types of prairie plants which support a diverse wildlife I've seen fox deer you have seen the red-tailed hawk and numerous other birds here at villa st. Benedict this is one of many of our independent living duplexes located on the property each home is landscaped with roses sumac flowering spring perennials this used to be a pond now converted into a butterfly garden which the sisters have created a few years back and every year this is to keep adding different types of species of plants for butterflies and birds the structure you see behind me was a gymnasium when the spend addicting sisters ran Sacred Heart Academy it is now home to the Benedictine sisters and is the monastery that is connected to our campus the sisters have been here since the early 1900s and now enjoy this beautiful space that they have that they started many years ago and continued to be a vibrant part of this community in 1912 nature and the promise of a more tranquil setting motivated the Benedictine sisters of the Sacred Heart to leave Chicago and move to Lisle over the years nature provided the sisters with a serene backdrop for farming daily living and quiet reflection today nature continues to play an important role in this vibrant senior living community refreshing spirits energizing people and establishing a healthy connection with the environment for residents staff and the remaining sisters Lisle the Arboretum village and villa st. Benedict provide an ideal place for all ages you
Time: 9 min 57 sec
Description:
none
Transcript:
moving out of one's home into a senior living community can be one of the most important decisions a person can make many people like the benefits of living at home such as gardening or enjoying an evening out on the patio but don't want the demands of maintaining a home for these folks Phyllis st. Benedict offers a vibrant alternative located in Lisle Illinois the Arboretum village this expansive senior community offers diverse opportunities to enjoy nature and achieve an enhanced quality of life join us as we learn about the important role villa st. Benedict played in Liles history and how nature can inspire and energize people throughout their lives hello my name is Judy strong and I'm the community relations liaison here at villa st. Benedict welcome to our campus we are located in Lisle at the corner of maple and the athlete and across the street from st. procopius Abbey Benedictine University and Bennett Academy you may know this corner as the Catholic four corners and we are proud to be part of the Benedictine tradition here in Lisle let me take you back to a time when the Benedictine sisters of the Sacred Heart first came out to this area it was 1912 the sisters had been living in Chicago amidst lots of noise and dust and they were looking for a place that would be tranquil and serene and a place that would offer them quiet reflection and and a place to pray so they follow the Benedictine men we come out to mile to found the college there was lots of farmland available at the time and there was even a train stop for the burlington railroad and Lisle Sacred Heart convent witches in the background here was opened in 1912 and started with sixty three sisters twelve novices and fourteen candidates part of the property was a and seventy-six acre farm called bana Dale and the sisters being city girls learned what farming was all about they had farm animals like chickens and ducks they actually plucked those chickens and made their own feather pillows they had a vegetable garden they had grapevines they had an apple orchard and they also had a herd of cattle and this operational firm stayed in existence till the late 1950s at that time the village of Lyle was in need of a space to build a school so been a Dale farm was closed and the sisters sold the property in 1920 st. Scholastica Cemetery was blessed and it is a tranquil spot close to nature where the deceased sisters are now buried in 1926 the sister started Sacred Heart Academy which was in the original convent and it opened with a class of 25 students it was a boarding school for girls and continued until 1967 when Bennett Academy then opened in 1930 an addition was put on to the convent for the Academy it was in a modified English Georgian style and the cost during the Depression was a mere fifty dollars also at the same time a renaissance Chapel was added to the Academy for the sisters and today our residents enjoy Sacred Heart Chapel in attending daily Mass seventy-five years later the chapel was rededicated in also saw a grotto being constructed it was designed by the sisters and is patterned after the Lord's grotto in France life continued for many years and in 1978 the sisters decided to expand their mission and start to care for seniors so in 1987 in the former Academy building they opened Queen of Peace Center which became home to 32 seniors in 1987 later in 2003 in keeping with the Benedictine tradition of hospitality the sisters vision and strategic plan gave us villa st. Benedict as we know it today there are seniors who make their home here some live independently in our villa homes others live independently in our four-story Villa Center the former Academy and Queen of Peace Center is now called been a Dale Center for assisted living and memory care for over a hundred years the sisters legacy has been a part of the village of Lyell and it continues today with Villa Saint Benedict join us now as we take a walking tour of our beautiful campus hello my name is Rob and I'll be giving you a ground tour of villa st. Benedict and Benedictine sisters Sacred Heart monasteries 47 acre property Villa Saint Benedict starts with beautifully landscaped entry signs to our property at this entrance sign at the corner of Jacqueline maple we have the first type of plants here with impatience salvia some canna some different cone flower and the black-eyed Susans with some 12 tall ornamental grasses Villa st. Benedict focuses on offering diverse wonderful opportunities to enjoy nature and enhance the quality of life for residents also great for the environment and supports diverse wildlife which creates an oasis in urban setting next stop is Villa st. benedict's residents raised vegetable gardens the residents have their own areas to plant various types of vegetables just steps away from the resident vegetable garden is where you can enjoy lunch on the Bistro patio or an evening dining by the fireplace on a lounge patio along the walking path is a grotto that was built in 1929 and completed in 1942 by employee of Benedictine sisters and the help from teenage orphans of st. Joseph's orphanage now called Bennett Academy High School most of the rock here to make the grotto was imported from Wisconsin and Missouri and excavated on the property here on Sacred Heart monastery grounds Villa st. benedict's landscape was installed in 2003 with over 150 evergreens and conifers 250 ornamental trees 400 stayed trees and 6400 shrubs over 6000 perennials and 2,000 flowering bulbs there is 4 detention cells located on the property the purpose of the detention cell is to capture stormwater and release the stormwater slowly back into the stream and rivers also each detention cell has over 100 types of prairie plants which support a diverse wildlife I've seen fox deer you have seen the red-tailed hawk and numerous other birds here at villa st. Benedict this is one of many of our independent living duplexes located on the property each home is landscaped with roses sumac flowering spring perennials this used to be a pond now converted into a butterfly garden which the sisters have created a few years back and every year this is to keep adding different types of species of plants for butterflies and birds the structure you see behind me was a gymnasium when the spend addicting sisters ran Sacred Heart Academy it is now home to the Benedictine sisters and is the monastery that is connected to our campus the sisters have been here since the early 1900s and now enjoy this beautiful space that they have that they started many years ago and continued to be a vibrant part of this community in 1912 nature and the promise of a more tranquil setting motivated the Benedictine sisters of the Sacred Heart to leave Chicago and move to Lisle over the years nature provided the sisters with a serene backdrop for farming daily living and quiet reflection today nature continues to play an important role in this vibrant senior living community refreshing spirits energizing people and establishing a healthy connection with the environment for residents staff and the remaining sisters Lisle the Arboretum village and villa st. Benedict provide an ideal place for all ages you
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Title: Joy Wilcox Video Testimonial
Time: 6 min 41 sec
Description:
Long-time resident, Joy Wilcox, details her daily life and explains why Villa St. Benedict was the perfect choice for her to be able to continue the lifestyle she designed for herself.
Transcript:
[Music] [Music] daily life it's said Phyllis ain't Benedict it's it's it allows me to do whatever I want to do if I've got something important that personal that I have to do I can schedule a time for it if I have some other meetings or anything I can schedule I know what my schedule is on that otherwise I can go down to the Bistro and get my lunch and talked to a lot of people are in the evening I can go to the dinner and at night I watch television or there's bingo and there are other activities in the evening so that's my daily routine [Music] we do have a lot of activities here on amenities that I absolutely love we have choral groups here we have for students from the high schools to come and play on a violin concert maybe by by a teenage girl who absolutely marvelous we have what tomorrow we're going to have a big beach party for example but I also enjoy the activities that we do when we when we go out from here I when I worked I never had a chance to like go to Drury Lane or to the Paramount and Aurora or the casino in Aurora we have so many activities that we can do one of the fun ones here is called noodle volleyball and talk about laughter I mean kids just it's absolutely glorious [Music] I actually lived here from the time I was three years old and live by the river and I used to say daddy didn't you know that a river was nearby I was in the first graduating class for mile high school and when I went off to college I kind of forgot about life and for the next 50 years or so I lived in Wheaton and then it got so that I was walking very well and had some other issues my family is on the East Coast and so I thought I better do something take care of myself and I had visited three other places and was not terribly impressed with them one in fact was so expensive it was completely out another one didn't have the friendliest people I get nothing and the third one was too small everything was crowded in together so I thought well I had come to a concert here a number of years before and so okay I try over here well it was a revelation to me because it was like coming home after all of those years the the library that we're in the just just everything the feel was right it was comfortable and after and after my son helped move me in I like two weeks later I called him up and I said you know you know how much you like this place for me I found something even then I found the people here they are the friendliest we just will laugh a lot here and that that made this place just about perfect [Music] my relationship with the people here I feel very very comfortable because so many people are just friendly it doesn't have to be you know over bubbly or anything it's just the fact that you can look somebody in the eye and say good morning how are you and when we're getting the mail for example in the morning you tend to meet a lot of people this this attitude started for me when I came to get my apartment here and Jared Quigley who was one of the marketing persons took me around and as we passed different janitors to housekeepers and that he called them by name and he'd say how did the kids Henry and David today and I thought he knows everybody and everybody knew him and that was just the clue of how the atmosphere was going to be here [Music] [Music] if you would like to improve here whether you're calling me or whether and talking to a friend or family member I would definitely say yes yes because it is comfortable you you feel like you can be part of a family but you can also be on your own so you you have this choice you have some privacy that you can have or you can join just about every activity that we have here and I'd say absolutely come here [Music] you [Music] you
Time: 6 min 41 sec
Description:
Long-time resident, Joy Wilcox, details her daily life and explains why Villa St. Benedict was the perfect choice for her to be able to continue the lifestyle she designed for herself.
Transcript:
[Music] [Music] daily life it's said Phyllis ain't Benedict it's it's it allows me to do whatever I want to do if I've got something important that personal that I have to do I can schedule a time for it if I have some other meetings or anything I can schedule I know what my schedule is on that otherwise I can go down to the Bistro and get my lunch and talked to a lot of people are in the evening I can go to the dinner and at night I watch television or there's bingo and there are other activities in the evening so that's my daily routine [Music] we do have a lot of activities here on amenities that I absolutely love we have choral groups here we have for students from the high schools to come and play on a violin concert maybe by by a teenage girl who absolutely marvelous we have what tomorrow we're going to have a big beach party for example but I also enjoy the activities that we do when we when we go out from here I when I worked I never had a chance to like go to Drury Lane or to the Paramount and Aurora or the casino in Aurora we have so many activities that we can do one of the fun ones here is called noodle volleyball and talk about laughter I mean kids just it's absolutely glorious [Music] I actually lived here from the time I was three years old and live by the river and I used to say daddy didn't you know that a river was nearby I was in the first graduating class for mile high school and when I went off to college I kind of forgot about life and for the next 50 years or so I lived in Wheaton and then it got so that I was walking very well and had some other issues my family is on the East Coast and so I thought I better do something take care of myself and I had visited three other places and was not terribly impressed with them one in fact was so expensive it was completely out another one didn't have the friendliest people I get nothing and the third one was too small everything was crowded in together so I thought well I had come to a concert here a number of years before and so okay I try over here well it was a revelation to me because it was like coming home after all of those years the the library that we're in the just just everything the feel was right it was comfortable and after and after my son helped move me in I like two weeks later I called him up and I said you know you know how much you like this place for me I found something even then I found the people here they are the friendliest we just will laugh a lot here and that that made this place just about perfect [Music] my relationship with the people here I feel very very comfortable because so many people are just friendly it doesn't have to be you know over bubbly or anything it's just the fact that you can look somebody in the eye and say good morning how are you and when we're getting the mail for example in the morning you tend to meet a lot of people this this attitude started for me when I came to get my apartment here and Jared Quigley who was one of the marketing persons took me around and as we passed different janitors to housekeepers and that he called them by name and he'd say how did the kids Henry and David today and I thought he knows everybody and everybody knew him and that was just the clue of how the atmosphere was going to be here [Music] [Music] if you would like to improve here whether you're calling me or whether and talking to a friend or family member I would definitely say yes yes because it is comfortable you you feel like you can be part of a family but you can also be on your own so you you have this choice you have some privacy that you can have or you can join just about every activity that we have here and I'd say absolutely come here [Music] you [Music] you
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