Word: gethsemani
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Trappists came to densely Protestant Georgia by daycoach from the largest of the three Trappist monasteries in the U.S. - Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Louisville, Ky. All were bearded, except the abbot (he alone can shave), the youngest was 30, the oldest 56. They arrived at night in torrents of rain, went to bed on the floor of the large two-story, white brick barn...
Abbot Dunne, who ranks as a Bishop, wears an episcopal ring, was born in Ohio (1874), went to school in Atlanta. He was the second native-born American, to enter Gethsemani, had to learn French to understand the rest of the monks...
When lean, ruddy, affable Abbot Dunne became abbot in 1935 there were 72 brethren at Gethsemani; today there are 151. Trappists in the U.S. total 275. Most men who enter are quite young (15 to 20). The Order does not normally draw professional men, but Superior Mary James Fox (Harvard '18, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), who entered the Order 17 years ago, worked for the U.S. Treasury, after Naval service during World War I. "I was all ready to become a millionaire," he says, "when I felt a force turning me the other...