Holy Cache Traditional Cache
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In the middle of the hustle and bustle of the North Miami area hides a treasure that will make any geocacher thrilled. There is an entrance fee to tour the property and look for the cache.
The Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux was built in Sacramenia, in the Province of Segovia, Spain, during the period 1133-1144. It was originally dedicated in honor of the Blessed Mother and named the “Monastery of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels.” Upon the canonization of the famous Cistercian Monk, Bernard of Clairvaux, a leading influence in the Church during that period, the Monastery was renamed in is honor. Cistercian monks occupied the monastery for nearly 700 years.
The Cloisters were seized, sold, and converted into a granary and stable due to a social revolution in that area in the mid-1830’s. In 1925 William Randolph Hearst purchased the Cloisters and the Monastery’s out- buildings. The structures were dismantled stone by stone, bound with protective hay, packed in some 11,000 wooden crates, numbered for identification and shipped to the United States.
About that time, hoof and mouth disease had broken out in Segovia, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, fearing possible contagion, quarantined the shipment upon its arrival, broke open the crates and burned the hay, a possible carrier of the disease. Unfortunately, the workmen failed to replace the stones in the same numbered boxes before moving them to a warehouse. Soon after the shipment arrived, Hearst’s financial problems forced most of his collection to be sold at auction. The stones remained in a warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, for 26 years. One year after Hearst’s death in 1952, they were purchased by Messrs. W. Edgemon and R. Moss for use as a tourist attraction. It took 19 months and almost $1.5 million dollars to put the Monastery back together. Some of the unmatched stones still remain in the back lot; others were used in the construction of the present Church’s Parish Hall.
Seven months after work started, the first two walls of the cloister walk began to take shape. Numbers had been marked on each stone before the Monastery was dismantled in Spain. The stones had to be fitted into their proper places like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle. Some weighted more than 1 1/2 tons.
From what you will see as you stroll the grounds and enter the buildings, it will appear you are actually in Spain. Enjoy this wonderful place.
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Gurer ner frireny uvqvat fcbgf
Gb svaq gur evtug bar lbh jvyy arrq gb cnpr
Nybat vgf fvqr naq gura jura lbh fvg
Yvtugyl oehfu lbhe unaq nebhaq
Xrrc ybbxvat, qba'g dhvg.
Vs nyy ryfr snvyf naq lbh pna'g svaq gur cynpr,
Sngure Tertbel znl gryy lbh vs lbh cyrnq lbhe pnfr.
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