{"id":7251,"date":"2004-04-07T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/04\/07\/indiana-monks-collect-millions\/"},"modified":"2004-04-07T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T12:50:09","slug":"indiana-monks-collect-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/04\/indiana-monks-collect-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana monks collect millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\"><a href=\"http:\/\/christusmedicus.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dev Thakur<\/a> sent me a link to this story:<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">ST. MEINRAD, Indiana (AP) &#8212; Monks in a monastery here may have a harder time with their vows of poverty now that they&#8217;ve got $26 million in spending money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Two women rewarded the hospitality of the Benedictine monks at the St. Meinrad Archabbey by leaving them $13 million each in their wills, according to Archabbot Lambert Reilly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;We would consider it an extreme blessing from God,&#8221; Reilly said. &#8220;We would also see it as somehow proof that we do exercise what&#8217;s supposed to typify us, and that is hospitality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Both women &#8212; Bernice Davey, 90, and Virginia Basso, 91 &#8212; had spoken of contributing to the monastery northeast of Evansville. &#8220;For them, it was home,&#8221; Reilly said.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/Midwest\/04\/06\/monks.money.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Cool story, but what I thought was strange is the graphic CNN decided to show with this story.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2004\/US\/Midwest\/04\/06\/monks.money.ap\/story.money.cross.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">St. Meinrad&#8217;s also has a business selling the same caskets and urns that are used by the monks.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbeycaskets.com\/\">abbeycaskets.com<\/a> provides some beautiful handcrafted items that seem to be very reasonable in pricing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Update: A commenter points me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappistcaskets.com\/showroom.html\">trappistcaskets.com<\/a>.  They also have some beautiful and some simpler and even more affordable caskets.  Either way a Trappist or Benedictine is an excellent way to keep a vow of silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dev Thakur sent me a link to this story: ST. MEINRAD, Indiana (AP) &#8212; Monks in a monastery here may have a harder time with their vows of poverty now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}