GC1D224 Inkamana Abbey (Traditional Cache) in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa created by I&J

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Knagur Green: Due to no response from the CO after the request to maintain or replace the cache, after they disabled it more than a year ago, I am archiving it to, stop it showing on the listings and/or to create place for the geocaching community

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GC1D224 ▼

A cache by I&J Message this owner

Hidden : 6/8/2008

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A short drive from Vryheid, South on the R34, you will see the sign board to the right. Follow the dirt road and sign in as visitor at the security gate (if manned). Proceed straight down and follow your GPS.

On September 1, 1921, the Propaganda Congregation entrusted a new mission field to the Benedictine Congregation of St. Ottilien. It comprised Zululand and parts of Natal in South Africa. The first group of Benedictines arrived nine months later in Natal and on August 3, 1922, they started a new mission at lnkamana which was then just a farm with a few small buildings on it. These pioneers were experienced missionaries who had been working in East Africa before, until World War I forced them to leave that country. Within
25 years they managed to erect 10 major mission stations in Natal as well as 4 hospitals and a great number of schools. Meanwhile lnkamana became more and more the centre of the Benedictines. The priests there served growing Christian communities in a vast area, the brothers intensified their gardening and farming activities and began to train Africans in the different workshops. Together with the Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing the monks built up a High School at lnkamana which soon attracted African boys and girls from ail over Southern Africa. A proper monastery building was erected in 1949 and soon afterwards the brothers built an architecturally impressive church which was consecrated in 1953. The outward development of lnkamana as the headquarters of the Benedictines in
Natal went hand in hand with a monastic consolidation. On October 10, 1961, lnkamana was declared a Prioratus Simplex and on June 21, 1968, was raised to the rank of a Conventual Priory.

During school terms, the area could be quite busy however, staff & students are quite used to visitors and won't find it strange if you wander around the grounds - especially where the cache is hidden and at the church.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Zbir bar ebpx bayl.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)