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...Atlanta, came 20 monks (10 priests, 3 clerics or students, 7 lay brothers), all members of the Roman Catholic Church's strictest monastic order (Trappists do not converse with one another). For $45,000 they bought 1,464-acre Honey Creek Plantation, which formerly belonged to old-time filmstar Colleen Moore. Said Atlanta's Catholic attorney Hughes Spalding to liquor dealer Mercer Harbin, who sold the farm : "Now, Mercer, I don't want you trying to cheat them." Replied Harbin: "No, sir, that old Abbot looks like he could pray me into Hell in five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Georgia's Trappists | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

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