Obrecht, 83, Abbot of the Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemane, superior administrator of all Trappists in the U. S. and Canada. Edmond Obrecht was born in France in 1852, four years after ...

In short—Graham summarizes—”become a Trappist-Cistercian monk while living in the world.” Benedictine Graham thinks of his own monastery “not as an asylum in which to escape from the ...

The Trappist order of monks was born in the 17th century ... She now has a PhD in microbiology, spent years studying curd creation in France, and has become a renowned advocate for artisan ...