Encountering the sound of silence that recoils from public life: the Benedictines of La Trappe

Between Rouen and Le Mans, set deep in the Forêt du Perche – some 400,000 acres of beech and oak – skirted by still lakes, orchards and arable farmland, is the Benedictine Abbaye de La Trappe. It was here, in a period of decadence for 17th-century monasticism in France, that this eponymous branch of the The post Encountering the sound of silence that recoils from public life: the Benedictines of La Trappe appeared first on Catholic Herald.

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Encountering the sound of silence that recoils from public life: the Benedictines of La Trappe
Between Rouen and Le Mans, set deep in the Forêt du Perche – some 400,000 acres of beech and oak – skirted by still lakes, orchards and arable farmland, is the Benedictine Abbaye de La Trappe. It was here, in a period of decadence for 17th-century monasticism in France, that this eponymous branch of the The post Encountering the sound of silence that recoils from public life: the Benedictines of La Trappe appeared first on Catholic Herald.
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