Mepkin Abbey Abbot Fr. Stan Gumula holds a sample of the monastery's oyster mushrooms. (The Post and Courier) The Trappist monks of South Carolina’s Mepkin Abbey are out of the egg business and into ...

Visitors feel a sense of peace the minute their cars turn into the entrance of Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery located on the Cooper River near Moncks Corner. Sunlight filters through live oak ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Oct. 30, 2013, Abbot Stan Gumula discusses recent additions at Mepkin Abbey during an interview at the abbey in Moncks ...

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MONCKS CORNER, S.C. | For those who believe in a biblical paradise, death can be a passage to a perfect afterlife. But there is now a place on Earth, a place of natural beauty and human spirit, where ...

Summerville (WCIV) — The Lowcountry is full of little hidden gems to explore, and that includes Mepkin Abbey in Summerville. Mepkin Abbey is a community of Roman Catholic moncks. It's open to visitors ...

Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in rural South Carolina, has inaugurated a new meditation garden memorializing the enslaved African Americans and Indigenous who once worked the land, part of a ...

(Moncks Corner-AP) August 28, 2006 - The long-time abbot of the Trappist monastery of Mepkin Abbey near Moncks Corner has died. The Reverend Francis Kline died Sunday at age 57 following a three-year ...

“Be a Monk. For a Month. For a Year.” So says the advertisement for Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina. It was a call for which I had been waiting, albeit not a call to vocation. I ...