Word: trappist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corks in a Bottle. The Cistercian monastery of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, at Coolspring, is the ninth Trappist community in the U.S., the newest in full operation, and follows the full medieval rule. Last week, on the 950 acres surrounding the mansion which was once the scene of glittering Southern balls, 32 Trappists were busily preparing for their silent life of work, prayer and meditation. Since last July, they have added a dormitory, dining hall, wing for offices and kitchen. The old kitchen building has been turned into a simple chapel, with highly polished stalls. "The only trouble...
When soldiers pillaged and burned the Trappist monastery at Yangkiaping, writes Grady, the 75 Chinese monks of the community were made prisoners and were led from one squalid mountain jail to another, ''ill fed, poorly clad, roughly treated, along a veritable 'way of the cross,' during which 27 of them died, and at the end of which six others were publicly executed." At the end of his article, Father Grady ists the names of 66 priests, lay brothers and nuns killed in China from 1946 to 1950, and 36 others who died in prison or immediately...
Bishop Le Huu Tu is an interesting personality; for 17 of his 54 years he was a Trappist monk. He has black eyebrows and protruding teeth. When he smiles, revealing a dazzling expanse of teeth and pink gums, and his long, bony hands flutter sensitively, he suddenly becomes transfigured into a man of charm and considerable magnetism. In 1945, before his rebellion, Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh named Bishop Tu "Supreme Counselor." "Being Supreme Counselor to Ho Chi Minh," explains Tu suavely, "was only an expedient. I realized from the first that he was Communist, but I used to tell...
Life in Pyongyang had been pleasant for the Korean Communist bosses, too. The offices of Communist Premier Kim II Sung make Syngman Rhee's modest quarters in Seoul look like a Trappist's cell. To enter Kim's personal office you have to walk through four successive anterooms past four portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot...
Some Other Virtue. Last week, U.S. readers, whose curiosity about the mystical and monastic aspect of Christianity may have been whetted by such bestselling authors as Trappist Thomas Merton, could sample the great St. Teresa* in an anthology of her work prepared by Msgr. William J. Doheny, C.S.C.: Selected Writings of St. Teresa of Avila (Bruce...