A letter from Trappist nuns in Syria: “Blood fills our streets, our eyes, our hearts”
by Alessandra Nucci – The Catholic World September 01, 2013 03:02 EST In March 2005 a small group of nuns from the Cistercian Monastery of Valserena in Tuscany moved to Aleppo, Syria, to found a new monastic community there. The nuns were inspired to take up the legacy of seven monks who were martyred …