Benedictines

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"Reading occupies a strange position in today's world, being at once physiologically unnecessary and culturally central."

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ACROSS THE COUNTRY A Miracle in Missouri? The Nun Who Put Her Abbey on the Map. Four years after her

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Believers say body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster is miraculously preserved

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Thousands of travelers to Missouri wait to pay respects to Sr. Wilhelmina Lancaster, a nun who died four years ago. She was found to have not decomposed when her body was recently exhumed.

College students need a taste of the monk's life.

Editor's note: Behind the Art is a recurring series highlighting artistic works throughout the county. A deeply symbolic work of art on display in St. Vincent Archabbey's Crypt leads viewers through the fall and rise of the Abbey of Montecassino in Italy, an important place in the Benedictine Order's history.