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The last surviving Trappist monk from Algeria massacre has died at 97

November 23, 2021

Father Jean Pierre Schumacher, one of two monks who survived the Tibhirine abbey massacre in Algeria in 1996, has died at the age of 97. Schumacher died in Morocco, where he had been living in a Trappist monastery in Midelt, on Nov. 21, the feast of Christ the King. The late monk served as the

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Thomas Merton library donated to US prison

November 16, 2015

The 'resource and research centre' is housed in Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel at prison in Shirley, Massachusetts

Monks bring Trappist art of beer-making to the United States

May 21, 2015

Two members spent six months learning the art in Belgium

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