{"id":34459,"date":"2017-02-26T21:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T01:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34459"},"modified":"2017-02-26T21:17:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T01:17:05","slug":"benedictine-monk-preserves-christian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/benedictine-monk-preserves-christian-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedictine monk preserves Christian history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Columba-Stewart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34460 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Columba-Stewart-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Columba-Stewart-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Columba-Stewart-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Columba-Stewart.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The word &#8220;rescue&#8221; doesn\u2019t always connect in people\u2019s monks with the life and work of a Benedictine monk, but when you read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2017\/02\/the-monk-who-saves-manuscripts-from-isis\/517611\/?utm_source=atlfb\"><strong>a recent article in <em>The Atlantic<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, you will have a new appreciation of the connection. It is a fact that Father Columba Stewart, monk of St. John\u2019s Abbey (Collegeville, MN) spends a great deal of time rescuing some of the world\u2019s precious manuscripts from possible human destruction &#8211;think of ISIS&#8211; and natural decay in a project sponsored by Saint John\u2019s Abbey and University \u2014<em>Hill Museum &amp; Manuscript Library<\/em> (HMML). The HMML project puts on microfilm and in digital format manuscripts the world has a rarely seen.<\/p>\n<p>This is human project with Divine blessing; a true ecumenical and inter-faith project that reaches into the deep for the sake of something greater: Truth. What else could you expect a monk to do as a fruit of his contemplation? This, for me, is crucial consequence of the Incarnation of the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;rescue&#8221; doesn\u2019t always connect in people\u2019s monks with the life and work of a Benedictine monk, but when you read a recent article in The Atlantic, you will have a new appreciation of the connection. It is a fact that Father Columba Stewart, monk of St. John\u2019s Abbey (Collegeville, MN) spends a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/benedictine-monk-preserves-christian-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Benedictine monk preserves Christian history<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,38],"tags":[32089,1749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34461,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34459\/revisions\/34461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}