European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I others i meal. Two monks out for stroll in estate s gardens pass by old Lodge keeper s Tower. Mice the Maria Latch Mirou ghost the devotions and medi societies these and Active in the sixth St. Benedict Good works an Active part /. Their farm cultural science in Eifel District Nutly asked for Jin their Power i the monks not monastery but trades. An a ice Cnoc has Lille Germany. _ and Art held Abbey maintains heal and Philo by the Brothers  the will in Pusan volumes. Higher learning Nudest collections cure Archive of is great Art which Man universities. Monks of Maria Latch Are also practitioners of Chc sacred arts. In one huge sculptor s studio littered with Wood shavings chips of Gypsum and Stone talented craftsmen turn out statues and statuettes of saintly images that will adorn the Basilica and Abbey buildings. Brother Radbod a sculptor Minia tourist and enamel worker is the designer of a famous mosaic in Jerusalem s Zion. Most famous of the monastery s artists is brother Nortker who has been i working in the Abbey  forty six years. I though the Maria. Latch Ronks Are fewer in number than before the War and outside assistance is needed to work the estate the monks Are still Able to provide Asylum for old people. Among their Lother Good works is the maintenance of a youth of Jostel. During the War these accommodations were fused by the various armies passing through the Eitel District As  Hospital. When the germans Giwerc forced to evacuate the americans took Over 1 followed in turn by the British and the French. On i the whole the monks were treated circumspectly by a the military. The Only pilferage committed was the stripping of a Small number of Well furnished rooms that the monastery had set aside for guests. Earlier in the War though Maria Latch was sometimes troubled by the Gestapo. On one occasion a member of the order recalled at the burial of an american prisoner of War i quoted from de pro Undis he  his people the quotation was reported to the Gestapo who misinterpreted it and we had a severe  up Fri i Niaj is i v a s v-,1-Mitt ? or in i pole is a. Of i slb8� a sub pm in full 8p or "1 p a i i 4 cd �.   i a .7T1-v"?t?. A Var u  alone so. Mab i Ewa few a moister on their Way to Basilica. At present there ent zonal boundaries have hampered recruiting. Weekend. March 27, tits Collinu a in next Page -13