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...Trappist Father Gabriel [TIME, March 19] is the very popular Father Arthur O'Conne11, who taught us baseball and heard our confessions at St. James's School in San Francisco...
...monks and novices live in a long file of cubicles, each about four feet across and just long enough to accommodate a narrow, iron-hard sleeping pallet. They do not sleep in their own coffins (as legend says Trappists once did), but the mattresses are hard as a slab in a city morgue. The 60 men are gradually learning the manual labor necessary to run a big estate. At the moment, most of them are hopelessly inept. "The supposition," laments Father Gabriel, "is that Trappists are great agriculturists. But that isn't the case here. They...
...group, the Trappists are healthy, youthful, happy-looking. Many are under 20; most are well-educated. They include many war veterans, to whom the Trappist life has a great appeal, and a converted Jewish psychiatrist who is the monastery doctor...
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...