Meeting May 3 - Radisson Hotel
Posted by RCS Staff
Robert McMullin
Chair of the Day: Kevin Fat
Meeting Sponsor: John Finegan
Chair of the Day: Kevin Fat
Meeting Sponsor: John Finegan
The Sacred Stones project is a fascinating, historic project to rebuild
an authentic "Chapter House" from the 12th century Spanish Cistercian monastery, Santa Maria de Ovila. The stones from the original building in Spain were transported to California in the 1930s by William Randolph Hearst. His intent was to build a medieval castle at Wyntoon, his estate on the McCloud River near Mount Shasta. Because of the Great Depression, Hearst never moved forward with the project and the stones languished in Golden Gate Park in a San Francisco warehouse for 60 years. In 1994, San Francisco had most of the stones moved to the Abbey of New Clairvaux, a Cistercian monastery in Vina, CA. The chapter house reconstruction should be completed in the next two to three years. Speaking about the Sacred Stones project will be Father Paul Mark Schwan and Bob McMullin.
Fr. Mark Paul is the fourth abbot of the Abbey of New Clairvaux,Vina, CA. The monastery belongs to the international Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, also known as Trappists, a monastic Order begun in Burgundy, France in 1098, although its origins can be traced to the fourth century deserts of Egypt. Bob McMullin has been the development director for the Sacred Stones project at the Abbey of New Clairvaux since April 2009, and oversees the Capital Campaign for the Sacred Stones.
an authentic "Chapter House" from the 12th century Spanish Cistercian monastery, Santa Maria de Ovila. The stones from the original building in Spain were transported to California in the 1930s by William Randolph Hearst. His intent was to build a medieval castle at Wyntoon, his estate on the McCloud River near Mount Shasta. Because of the Great Depression, Hearst never moved forward with the project and the stones languished in Golden Gate Park in a San Francisco warehouse for 60 years. In 1994, San Francisco had most of the stones moved to the Abbey of New Clairvaux, a Cistercian monastery in Vina, CA. The chapter house reconstruction should be completed in the next two to three years. Speaking about the Sacred Stones project will be Father Paul Mark Schwan and Bob McMullin.
Fr. Mark Paul is the fourth abbot of the Abbey of New Clairvaux,Vina, CA. The monastery belongs to the international Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, also known as Trappists, a monastic Order begun in Burgundy, France in 1098, although its origins can be traced to the fourth century deserts of Egypt. Bob McMullin has been the development director for the Sacred Stones project at the Abbey of New Clairvaux since April 2009, and oversees the Capital Campaign for the Sacred Stones.