Tag: the wisdom of abstinance
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Trappist monks are remarkably long-lived and free of disease. Their abstemious fare, along with prayer, exercise, and fresh air, lengthens their lives through avoidance of chronic disease. In history many great epidemics and plagues that ravaged the neighboring countryside were stopped at the gates of an abbey (see A Popular History of the Catholic Church…
THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 