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A group of Carmelite monks in the mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming, are building a Gothic monastery using cutting-edge technology. They’ve adapted high-tech computerized machines to carve stone that looks like it could’ve been sculpted 1,000 years ago.
A group of monks in the mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming, are building a Gothic monastery using cutting-edge technology. They’ve adapted CNC machines to carve stone that looks like it could’ve been sculpted 1,000 years ago. (Courtesy Carmelite Monks of Wyoming)
Say the word monastery and the word medieval is likely not far behind. Monasteries and monks, they just all have an old-world vibe.
Perhaps not deservedly so.
“When you think of monks, you think medieval, you know, Dark Ages,” Brother Isidore Mary of the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming told Cowboy State Daily. “You think of something way back in the past.”
But during that medieval history of the distant past, it was often monks who were the most open to new methods and new ways.
Continued below.
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A group of monks in the mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming, are building a Gothic monastery using cutting-edge technology. They’ve adapted CNC machines to carve stone that looks like it could’ve been sculpted 1,000 years ago. (Courtesy Carmelite Monks of Wyoming)
Say the word monastery and the word medieval is likely not far behind. Monasteries and monks, they just all have an old-world vibe.
Perhaps not deservedly so.
“When you think of monks, you think medieval, you know, Dark Ages,” Brother Isidore Mary of the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming told Cowboy State Daily. “You think of something way back in the past.”
But during that medieval history of the distant past, it was often monks who were the most open to new methods and new ways.
Continued below.
Carmelite Monks Near Meeteetse Use Modern Tech To Build Gothic Monastery
A group of Carmelite monks in the mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming, are building a Gothic monastery using cutting-edge technology. They’ve adapted…
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