this celebration is a big attraction priests have come from all over germany. the axillary arrives at the basilica. the archdiocese of high book subsidizes the monks. i am very grateful that we have benedictine monks on once again and i am also very grateful that sense quite recently just a few months but we also have nuns who have established a small branch here in a climate. of the sector stands brother has smoked his vacuum cleaner for tuba he is a member of the civil guard these days it s just a society that marches on holidays like this one in times past however the civil guard was made up of serfs attached to the abbey. they were the only ones permitted
categories through for we don t have anything against the people up there that s simply illegal now that all. the monks and nuns aren t considering moving they believe in the holy path that leads to their tent. they believe they mustn t leave it but must keep calm and carry on meditating. they re preparing to recover there is nothing more valuable than our ideas our thinking. here. to give. the could begin with and there are the buddhist teachings. or the buddhist teachings help us put things together and understand things you are food insecure. for now buddha is still gazing peacefully into the distance but a storm is brewing and will soon be here.
of papyrus written in greek anda coptic. i wase surprised when i went to study theas beginning of the christian movement in graduate school and my professors had file cabinets full of gospels which i d never heard. elaine pagle, professor of s religion, author of a book on oo the gnostic gospels. this texts belonged in a monetary library. they were copied and read and lovered by the monks. but in the year 367 the archbishop of the great city oft alexandria sent a letter out to the monks and he said, you can s keep 27 of them. the other books, he told them te destroy, were hidden. reporter: the gnostic gospels and their stories about jesus, remained hidden for nearly 1600 years.600 they were accidentally discovered by an egyptian farmeg digging for fertilizer. over the centuries, other c stories were written about jesus. they were known as the y apocryphal gospels. and surprising to many there is another book that tells about jesus. the story of jesus and his
partnership this one. an order of monks in northern california teaming up with one of the nation s largest breweries. the idea rebuild a 900-year-old monday monastery from spain in california. the monks are actually growing some of the ingredients to help craft a couple of new brews. claudia cowan with more in our san francisco newsroom this afternoon. hey, clawed yanchts hi, shepard. yeah, monks have actually been making beer for centuries never like this. sierra nevada known for pail ale using some of the plumbs and oranges grown by the monks. that s just part of this unique collaboration that s helping preserve a piece of significant monday monastery history. the monks in tiny vinea
we don t always know exactly how they spread. archaeologist jonathan reed and scholars are excavators. those writings in the second century this area was written down the sources for the gospels can be dated around the 50s that is nearly 20-years. there are no first editions of the gospels the originals were lost, worn out and destroyed. what is there is scraps of papaya in the greek. i was surprised when i studied the gospels my professors. she wrote a book on the gnostic gospels. she be long in a library. they were copied and read by the