Thomas Merton (Fr. Louis), enters The Trappist Abbey of Gethsemane.
Kentucky, USA
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FYI, a warning to those who get romantic ideas and wish to run off to the 'austere' and traditional Monastic Life depicted in this film at Gethsemane, Kentucky who's images are primarily from the late 1940s:
the 'Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance' (Trappists), no loner since 1967, live like you see in this video from Gethsemane,...the 'Strict' interpretation of the Rule of St. Benedict, in the title, no longer applies to them really, and are practically no different from most modern adapted/progressive Benedictines.(except the Horarium, of course)
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