The New York Times’ Stephen Hiltner paid a visit to the venerable Trappist monastery in South Carolina and describes some of the challenges it is facing: Mepkin Abbey — part of a global network of ...

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 ...

Yesterday I visited for the first time Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery northwest of Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in 1949 on land donated by Henry Luce and Clare Boothe Luce, this property on ...

Visitors feel a sense of peace the minute their cars turn into the entrance of Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery located on the Cooper River near Moncks Corner. Sunlight filters through live oak ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

(Moncks Corner-AP) August 28, 2006 - The long-time abbot of the Trappist monastery of Mepkin Abbey near Moncks Corner has died. The Reverend Francis Kline died Sunday at age 57 following a three-year ...