Haha, this is surreal to see. I attended the only Cistercian high-/middle-school in the US, which of all places is in Texas. How they ended up there was due to

Haha, this is surreal to see. I attended the only Cistercian high-/middle-school in the US, which of all places is in Texas. How they ended up there was due to a series of happy (and many not-so-happy) accidents while fleeing Nazi/USSR occupation. Many of whom would come to be the original Hungario-Texan monks who fled in their teens/twenties (some of them students themselves at a Cistercian school in Hungary who had no intention of ever entering the priesthood) were my teachers, and some still are alive today. I’m not particularly religious, but I always found their order’s history and personal stories fascinating, and a living example of adapting to the cards you’re dealt.