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“The monastery has existed for nearly 14 centuries, though with interruptions,” Dom Jean-Charles Nault, abbot of the Abbey of St. Wandrille since 2009, told the Register.

The Renaissance-era painting on the book’s cover depicts St Benedict with a retinue of monks and brown-skinned (often Arab or African) craftsmen constructing monasteries, apparently Arab or African.

Father James Orthmann, 66, who has lived at the monastery since 1977, says that in 2007 the monks started to reassess. “We had to do something,” he says.

Today, Pluscarden has a community of 15 Benedictine monks, some of whom hail from Nigeria, Australia, East Africa, Poland, England, and New Zealand. The abbey still receives vocational applications.

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