Postcards: Scotch Stores – Type I

Roman Catholic Church Monte Cassino Mission The “Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance,” commonly known as Trappist Monks, arrived in Natal, South Africa (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1882 under the leadership of Rev. Francis Pfanner.  Fr. Pfanner and a group of 31 volunteers settled on a farm near the village of Pinetown and set to…