Palendriai St. Benedict’s Monastery is located in the village of Palendriai. Kelmė district. The place for the construction of the new monastery was searched in the whole of Lithuania but amazing monumental nature (prominent hills leading to Samogitian upland. high sky. Vainagiai woods. stretching up to Kurtuvėnai) and the priest K.Ambrozaitis’ old church-oratorio determined the selection of the place for the monastery. On August 28. 1997. a new religious community in Lithuania – Palendriai St Benedict’s monastery – was registered. Benedictines of Palendriai moved to the new monastery in autumn of 2001.