The deepening allegations of sexual abuse of minors at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville will now, in part, be played out in court.

Two men who attended St. John's Preparatory School during the 1980s filed suit against St. John's Abbey Thursday, contending they were sexually abused by school priests while they attended the boarding school.

Meanwhile, the abbey said Thursday that a 14th priest is living under restriction at the abbey after allegations of sexual abuse were leveled against him. He joins 13 other priests living under the restrictions, 11 of whom have admitted to the accusations.

St. John's Abbot John Klassen had said the alleged victims were mostly boys ranging in age from 12 to 17 years old in incidents that took place mostly in the 1970s.

But the lawsuit filed Thursday came from two men who attended St. John's Preparatory School in the 1980s.

The men named the Rev. Dunstan Moorse and the Rev. Allen Tarlton in the suit, and also allege that that abbey and the Order of St. Benedict knew about the alleged activities of the priests and covered it up, according to the St. Cloud Times.

One of the plaintiffs, Bill Quenroe, talked with reporters Thursday on the steps of the Stearns County Courthouse where the suit was filed while the other plaintiff is identified only as "John Doe 43."

Moorse is the priest who, it was revealed in mid-May, was known by his superiors to have been accused of sexually abusing young people at the abbey but was transferred to teach at Benilde-St. Margaret's High School in the Twin Cities in 1995 without warning school officials of the accusations.

There were no accusations against Moorse at the Twin Cities parochial school, but the abbey reportedly has settled past lawsuits against him.

While the legal machinations against St. John's begins in St. Cloud, a metro area priest resigned after a published report detailed accusations that he had inappropriate relationships with an adult woman and at least one girl from 1969 into the 1980s.

The Rev. Richard Jeub had been an associate pastor at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church when the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported in late May that he was among several priests accused of wrongdoing while serving in Twin Cities parishes or for the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis.

Church officials said Jeub took early retirement.

Back in St. Cloud, the Times reported on several new revelations presented in the lawsuit about alleged events at St. John's.

Among them, the newspaper said that the Rev. John Eidenschink -- the first St. John's priest against whom accusations surfaced during the recent wave of alleged sexual abuse in the Catholic Church across the county -- abused a male he was counseling in the early 1960s.

Eidenschink currently lives under restrictions at the abbey.

Since Eidenschink's case made public the revelation that the abbey had more than a dozen priests living under restrictions on its grounds, Klassen has opened the abbey's personnel files to local police who are examining the records as part of the investigation into a high-profile murder of two teen-aged sisters in the 1970s and the disappearance of a Jacob Wetterling in the 1980s.