For Missouri monks, holiday fruitcakes are slice of the divine
Fr. Cyprian Harrison, a Trappist monk, decorates fruitcakes. Every fruitcake is topped with four pecan halves, two red cherries and two green cherries. RNS photo by Kellie Kotraba
AVA, Mo. (RNS) Some monasteries make jelly, creamed honey, even world-class beer. For the last 25 years, the Trappist monks of Assumption Abbey here in the foothills of the Ozarks have made fruitcake. By Kellie Kotraba.