PEOSTA, Iowa — The era of farming by New Melleray Abbey monks came to end Nov. 20 when the monastery’s farm machinery was auctioned in a hay field. The blustery day drew 500 auction goers ...

PEOSTA, Iowa — --Amid the gently contoured hills of eastern Iowa, only a few miles from the Mississippi River, New Melleray provides guests with an idyllic setting in which to escape the hustle ...

Rev. Bernard Cullen, 90, of New Melleray Abbey, Peosta, Iowa. Beloved son of Bernard and Catherine (O'Connor), dear brother of John Bernard (Ruth Cleary), C ...

Trappists, Sam Mulgrew tells me, “are very land-based.” We’re sitting in the office of Trappist Caskets, just a short walk from New Melleray Abbey in Dubuque, Iowa.

(RNS) — The Trappist monks of New Melleray Abbey have always given away child caskets. Now they're offering adult caskets to people in need.

PEOSTA, Iowa — Abbot Brendan Freeman said New Melleray Abbey’s decision to quit farming did not come easily. Get 3 months/99¢ a month SUBSCRIBE NOW Show Search. Clear Search Query Submit Search.

At New Melleray, which was founded by Irish monks who came to Iowa in 1849, prayer is considered "the center of life," said Father Brendan Freeman, who has been the abbot for 20 years.

The New Melleray Trappists will be at home with their monastic family, too. At Christmas Eve Midnight Mass, the abbey church bells will ring, and the Iowa monks will sing hymns like “Angels We ...

Mount Melleray Abbey, near Cappoquin, will close on Saturday, almost two centuries after it was founded in the 1830s by an ...

For nearly 160 years, the Trappist monks of New Melleray Abbey have worked with their hands to support their lives of prayer. For most of that time, it was agricultural work — raising grain and ...

The abbey was founded in 1832 by Irish and English monks who were expelled from the abbey of Melleray in France "There is no point in being nostalgic and looking back, we have to look to the future." ...