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One fine day in junior high school, I set out for a walk, planning to go fishing for char. But the fishing spot lay beyond the hill where Hakodate’s Trappistine Convent stood, and the long, steep ...

A new cemetery providing natural burials was recently opened in the Netherlands after years of preparation. The Trappistine Sisters of the Abbey of Koningsoord came up with the idea as a place of ...

There is food we eat in life for nourishment, and there’s food we enjoy and sometimes crave, such as chocolate. The Cistercian nuns of Mount Saint Mary’s Abbey in Wrentham, Massachusetts have been ...

Elles veillent. Jour et nuit, les moniales de l'abbaye Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Espérance, à Échourgnac, prient, chantent et travaillent. Sur les collines douces de la Double, dans une vaste clairière ...