When he was only 13, Thomas Verner Moore knew what he wanted to be—a hermit. The son of a Louisville insurance man, young Tom Moore had had his imagination fired by a book on the so-called Desert ...
On top of Mount Equinox, 17 monks from all over the world live quietly, dedicating their lives to silence, solitude and contemplation. The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration, America s only ...
The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of Saint Bruno, is a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monastics, and includes both monks and nuns (separately, of course). In Europe, they created ...