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The secret evacuations began at night. Ancient books were packed in small metal shoe-lockers and loaded three or four to a car to reduce the danger to the driver and minimise possible losses. The manuscript-traffickers passed through the checkpoints of their Islamist occupiers on the journey south across the desert from Timbuktu to Bamako. Later, when that road was blocked, they transported their cargo down the Niger river by canoe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So begins a really gripping story in The Economist<\/em> about our Hill Museum and Manuscript Library: \u201cFaith\u2019s Archivists<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

HMML has a historic emphasis on medieval Latin manuscripts, but has increasingly branched out into filming Islamic and other materials in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m more than a bit proud of my confrere and good friend, Fr. Columba Stewart OSB, who is director of HMML. The Economist<\/em> says of him and of us:<\/p>\n

St. John\u2019s Abbey was founded in 1862 and moved here in 1865. Its monks make honey, candles and fine furniture, but have not brewed beer since a temperate Minnesota archbishop forbade it in the 1880s. They spend each day gardening and teaching, following rules set down by St Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century that call for a balance of prayer and work in everyday life. Occupying a great deal of their affection, and most of Father Columba\u2019s time, is the abbey\u2019s library.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s thrilling and sometimes dangerous work, filming manuscripts in war-torn regions. And it\u2019s very important. I’m glad\u00a0there is this connection between the Middle East and Collegeville.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the world, Father Columba heads back to the monastery\u2019s guest house, where the windows are streaked with ice. \u201cBenedictines are fundamentally optimistic about the human project. That\u2019s why we\u2019re not frightened by science or novelty,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen people look at what we\u2019re doing with Muslim communities, they say, why do you do this? I say, this is the time God has given us. We can\u2019t pretend we live in the sixth century when Benedict wrote his rule, or the 13th, or the 1950s, before the sexual revolution. We live now. And part of the reality is cultures which are threatened trying to figure out how to work together on this fragile planet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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