MONCKS CORNER — A seven-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicting the hand of God cradling the body of Jesus stands opposite the gravesite of John and Henry Laurens. One of the first incarnations of it, ...
At Mepkin Abbey, a driveway lined with live oaks invites visitors into a sanctuary of silence where Catholic monks have ...
The Most Rev. Jacques Fabre-Jeune, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, blesses the ground where 20 unmarked graves of people who were enslaved at the former Mepkin Plantation were ...
MONCKS CORNER — Roughly 100 people gathered on April 26 in the gardens of Mepkin Abbey to remember the people who lived, worked, and died on the land now home to the Catholic monastery. The overcast ...
Brother Joseph Swedo was bent forward in his chair, his rugged hands folded delicately in his lap. As a monk at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, he maintains that Roman Catholic ...
Five young men from Orangeburg were recognized on the floor of the South Carolina House of Representatives this week after earning the rank of Eagle Scout — the highest achievement in scouting.