The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . table spot in Normandy ? Here, too, isthe broad basin of retired country; here the denselywooded hills, shutting it in from the world; here theorchards and vineyards and gardens of the asceticdevotees; and, as the night falls from the low,blurred sky of gray, and cuts short a silent contem-plation of the scene, here, too, one finds ones self,like some belated traveller in the dangerous forestsof old, hurrying on to reach the porters lodge, andask within the sacred walls the hospitality of thevenerable abbot. II For nearly a cent
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . table spot in Normandy ? Here, too, isthe broad basin of retired country; here the denselywooded hills, shutting it in from the world; here theorchards and vineyards and gardens of the asceticdevotees; and, as the night falls from the low,blurred sky of gray, and cuts short a silent contem-plation of the scene, here, too, one finds ones self,like some belated traveller in the dangerous forestsof old, hurrying on to reach the porters lodge, andask within the sacred walls the hospitality of thevenerable abbot. II For nearly a century after the death of De Raneeit is known that his followers faithfully maintainedhis reform at La Trappe. Then the French Revo-lution drove the Trappists as wanderers into variouscountries, and the abbey was made a foundery forcannon. A small branch of the order came in 1804to the United States, and established itself for awhile in Pennsylvania, but soon turned its eyes tow-ards the greater wilds and solitudes of Kentucky. A HOME OF THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD 177. OFFICE OF THE FATHER PRIOR. For this there wasreason. Kentucky wasearly a great pioneerof the Catholic Churchin the United the first episco-pal see of the Westwas erected,and Bards-town held spiritualjurisdiction,within cer-tain parallels of lati-tude, over all States and Territories between the two oceans. Here,too, were the first Catholic missionaries of theWest, except those who were to be found in theFrench stations along the Wabash and the Missis-sippi. Indeed, the Catholic population of Kentucky,which was principally descended from the colonistsof Lord Baltimore, had begun to enter the State asearly as 1775, the nucleus of their settlements soonbecoming Nelson County, the locality of the presentabbey. Likewise it should be remembered that theCatholic Church in the United States, especiallythat portion of it in Kentucky, owes a great debt tothe zeal of the exiled French clergy of early buoyanc
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