Mepkin Abbey Abbot Fr. Stan Gumula holds a sample of the monastery's oyster mushrooms. (The Post and Courier) The Trappist monks of South Carolina’s Mepkin Abbey are out of the egg business and into ...
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WIS) - At Mepkin Abbey, a driveway lined with live oaks invites visitors into a sanctuary of silence where Catholic monks have devoted their lives to prayer and the search for God ...
The Most Rev. Jacques Fabre-Jeune, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, blesses the ground where 20 unmarked graves of people who were enslaved at the former Mepkin Plantation were ...
MONCKS CORNER — A seven-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicting the hand of God cradling the body of Jesus stands opposite the gravesite of John and Henry Laurens. One of the first incarnations of it, ...
This gate leads to a second Black cemetery at Mepkin Abbey. Credit: Herb Frazier, Charleston City Paper. MORNING HEADLINES | Dom Gerard Jonas Palmares is the new abbot of Mepkin Abbey following a Jan.
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. | For those who believe in a biblical paradise, death can be a passage to a perfect afterlife. But there is now a place on Earth, a place of natural beauty and human spirit, where ...
Every Christmas, the Trappist Monks of Mepkin Abbey, host a Crèche Festival. Inspired by the first few Crèche sets donated by a grateful retreatant; the festival has grown almost exponentially. This ...
Moncks Corner, S.C. (WCIV) — Tucked away in Moncks Corner sits Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist Monastery where 14 monks live and work on the land. The 3,000 sprawling acres are hugged by the Cooper River and ...
Mepkin Abbey once again opens to visitors this weekend and next for its annual Creche Festival, an exhibition that features dozens of artistic interpretations of the holy Christmas scene. For many, ...
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