Trappist Caskets - Trappist Caskets
The unique experience of a Trappist Casket. Each casket is handcrafted and blessed by the Trappist monks of New Melleray. We use premium woods from our sustainable forest, and only the finest materials, inside and out. Available for immediate delivery or for later delivery as part of our pre-planning program.
Caskets - Trappist Caskets
Our caskets are made by the Trappist monks of New Melleray Abbey and local laypersons. They are built from solid wood (no veneers) using fine-woodworking methods, and except for our simple pine caskets, all are made from classic hardwoods which add to a casket’s beauty and strength.
Artisan Caskets Crafted By Trappist Monks
The Trappist Monks of New Melleray Abbey believe you and your loved ones deserve a more personal approach. Each of our caskets is made from wood specially selected and harvested from the trees in our 1400-acre forest. After the tree is cut …
Urns - Trappist Caskets
Our Wooden Urns are handmade within the tranquil environment of our monastery. Each is blessed by a monk to sanctify it as a final resting place and to provide a source of comfort and consolation to those left behind. Each urn includes a removable keepsake cross. This cross may be engraved for an additional cost.
Trappist Caskets - New Melleray
Our business, Trappist Caskets, is located across the road in front of the monastery. Trappist Caskets provides our principle work for self-support. By making caskets and urns we participate in the centuries-old traditional works of mercy to bury the dead and to pray for the dead.
Rural Iowa Monks Combine Craft and Ecology to Make Caskets
2024年3月5日 · Each casket crafted by monks and employees at this facility in Peosta, Iowa, captures unrepeatable characteristics in walnut, oak, cherry or pine grain. Trappist Caskets, located near the New Melleray Abbey in northeast Iowa, prayerfully serves families and the land.
Trappist Caskets | Ramsay Group Funeral Services
The unique experience of a Trappist Casket. Each casket is handcrafted and blessed by the Trappist monks of New Melleray. We use premium woods from our sustainable forest, and only the finest materials, inside and out. Available for immediate delivery or for later delivery as part of our pre-planning program.
I’ve heard of Trappist beer, but what is a Trappist casket?
2018年7月23日 · The Trappist caskets are handcrafted by the monks, with support from a group of skilled laborers. They use wood (mainly black walnut, red oak, white oak, and cherry) from several groves on the Abbey grounds.
Trappist Casket and Urn | Calvary Catholic Cemetery
Trappist wood caskets and urns and ceramic urns are handcrafted by the monks of New Melleray Abbey. Each casket and urn is built in the abbey’s prayerful environment and is personally blessed by one of the monks prior to shipment. A Mass is offered at the abbey for each person who has used a Trappist casket or urn and their name is inscribed ...
monks of New Melleray Abbey embrace a hidden life wholly ordered to the contemplation of God. Faithful to the Rule of St. Benedict, these Trappist monks support themselves by the work of their hands. Casket making provides for their modest living. The monks view their work as a corporal act of mercy—crafting caskets as if they were cradles —