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'Nun Grandma': The SF millionaire who gave it all up to spend her last 31 years in a monastery sfgate.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfgate.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Subscriber Exclusive ‘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. ....
Trappist Caskets: Iowa monks donate handmade coffins to COVID victims amestrib.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from amestrib.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.