The Trappist monks at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Va., live an austere life. But they make a decadent fruitcake.Loaded with fruits and nuts, and liberally doused with sherry and brandy, the ...

BERRYVILLE, VA – A tiny community of cloistered ... The other problem was that Holy Cross Abbey’s 1,200 acres—where monks produce fruitcake and creamed honey and rent land to tenant farmers ...

A setting like that made it natural to shift to Holy Cross's main pursuit -- inner reflection. For that, these 1,200 acres of farmland in pastoral Berryville, Va., could not be better suited.