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Trappist Caskets: Iowa monks donate handmade coffins to COVID victims


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‘Working for God’: How Iowa monks began making caskets and found a way to spread their faith
The monks view Trappist Caskets as cradles to the next life. As COVID-19 swept the world, they decided to donate plain pine caskets for its victims.
Courtney Crowder, Des Moines Register
Published
5:25 pm UTC Apr. 1, 2021
The walnut planks used to make Caroline Found’s casket grew for 120 years in a quiet northeast Iowa forest.
Tucked away behind a hulking limestone monastery, the tree was prayed over by the monks of New Melleray Abbey for more than a century, generations of brothers ushering it from seedling to sapling to hardwood. ....

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