The first thing the mourners could view as they entered the abbey church, soaring above the edge of the polished pine bier, was his magnificent, pointed nose. Brother Mary Joseph lay in state at ...
The walnut planks used to make Caroline Found’s casket grew for 120 years in a quiet northeast Iowa forest. Tucked away behind a hulking limestone monastery, the tree was prayed over by the monks of ...
DUBUQUE — Like most people, Trappist monks and nuns in the Dubuque area have to find ways to pay the bills. Without much funding from their orders, their dioceses or the Vatican, the monks of New ...
An Iowa monastery of Trappist monks is offering an unusual but necessary act of charity amid the global pandemic - free caskets to financially struggling families who have lost a loved one. New ...
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