As you are driving the Texas Panhandle roads of either Highway 86 or Farm to Market 168 in Castro County, you will see a town emerge on a hill seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Then you see a large structure that is the church. Its cross can be seen miles away on a…
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A Monk’s Cross
It was misting the day I walked this hillside cemetery beholding priests’ graves at Subiaco Abbey in Subiaco, Arkansas. I was searching for one grave in particular Father Conrad Herda’s grave. Herda was the priest who built the cemetery and is one of the priests I have been researching for the Holy Family Church in…
Read MoreRevelations of a Humble Priest Through Translations of His German Letters
Learning more about Father Conrad Herda only intrigues my research more on this priest who served in Texas, specifically at the towns of Nazareth and Lindsay. He was a priest assigned from Subiaco Abbey in Arkansas. I’m thankful to Doris Miller for translating his German letters, so I can ascertain more about him…
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Forgotten Winds 