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June 16, 2025 Stone Cutting

The Chapel: Carving Granite

Throughout the winter and spring the monks worked diligently to carve the granite for the Chapel’s apse.

February 3, 2025

Monastery featured in Modern Machine Shop

Monastery stone cutting featured in Modern Machine Shop article Monks are interesting enough, but when you add the ancient craft of stone carving and modern manufacturing to the mix, you have quite the combination! This was recently highlighted in an article by Modern Machine Shop (MMS), a leading publication in the manufacturing and machining industry. […]

April 20, 2022

Cutting Stone for the Chapter House

Did you know that the monks themselves cut and shape every single stone that makes up the monastery buildings? This traditional approach, a monastery being built by its own monks, is alive and well here in this little corner of Wyoming. Over the past year, monks have been diligently working to complete the 4000 or […]