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A story about beauty, told by monks in an Austrian monastery

Rod Dreher

May 20, 2017 2:31 AM

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av95Zq6P6H8&w=525&h=300]

Thanks to a new German Catholic friend in Munich for sending this along.

That clip is a made-up version of this real-life experiment involving violinist Joshua Bell in the DC subway. If you don’t know this story, you should!

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