{"id":23762,"date":"2011-01-01T22:19:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/monastery_works_to_preserve_ancient_christian_texts\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:19:32","slug":"monastery_works_to_preserve_ancient_christian_texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23762","title":{"rendered":"(Lehrer News Hour) Monastery Works to Preserve Ancient Christian Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>REV. COLUMBA STEWART, director, Hill Museum, St. John&#8217;s Abbey: Who would have thought that in a monastery in Central Minnesota is the world&#8217;s largest collection of photographs and manuscripts?<\/p>\n<p>FRED DE SAM LAZARO: For 50 years, this underground library at St. John&#8217;s Abbey has collected and catalogued historic Christian manuscripts. Father Columba Stewart says it&#8217;s part of a monastic tradition that dates back to the 6th century.<\/p>\n<p>FATHER COLUMBA STEWART: I&#8217;m a Benedictine monk. There&#8217;s an impulse in Benedictines to exercise this role of cultural guardianship. And that&#8217;s an impulse that continues even in the modern age&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/religion\/july-dec10\/sacredtexts_12-31.html\">Read or watch it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REV. COLUMBA STEWART, director, Hill Museum, St. John&#8217;s Abbey: Who would have thought that in a monastery in Central Minnesota is the world&#8217;s largest collection of photographs and manuscripts? FRED DE SAM LAZARO: For 50 years, this underground library at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23762\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,92,186,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-books","category-church-history","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}