Crossword-Solution: TRAPPISTS 9 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The rule was very hard; he would have dearly liked to stay in his own country, Italy--it was well known how beautiful it was, the beautiful Italy; but then there were no Trappists in Italy; and he had a soul to save; and here he was.

But what are you going to do? No one can face solitude without some moral resources.” “Madame, I should be very glad, after hearing what you have said, if you yourself would be the guide of my destiny.” “You speak like a man of the world,” she answered, “and are trying to flatter me,--a woman of sixty! My dear child,” she went on, “let me tell you that you are here among persons who believe strongly in God; who have all felt his hand, and have yielded themselves to him almost as though they were Trappists.

Who would dare to break the silence when he is mute? One would think it was a dinner of dumb people, or a supper of Trappists, except for the good cheer.

The Carthusians, Cistercians, Trappists, and some others, about 1800 monks and brethren who, for the most part, till the ground, do not impose labor on themselves other than as an accessory exercise; their first and principal object is prayer, meditation and worship; they, too, devote their lives to contemplation on the other world and not to the service of this one.

Domini, I don’t want to tell you about the Trappists, their life--only about myself, why I was as I was, how I came to change.