| Trappistine Creamy Caramels are made with the finest of ingredients - real cream, butter, corn syrup, chocolate, and flavorings. Candy production is the work of our monastic community and we make this candy with tender loving care. We are grateful to God for this business which allows us to be self-supporting.
This is a box of Swiss Mints--Rich chocolate mint squares in two trays of 20 pieces each.
Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey is a cloistered, monastic community of 30 Trappistine nuns of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance. We are situated on a farm on a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, about seven miles from Dubuque, Iowa. Our main means of support is the production and sale of Trappistine Creamy Caramels. As Cistercians, we follow the Rule of St Benedict, written in the sixth century. Our Order was founded in 1098 by Saints Robert, Alberic, and Stephen in a wilderness area called Citeaux, in the diocese of Burgundy, France. As Trappistines, our branch of the Cistercian family follows a seventeenth century reform by the Abbey of La Trappe. |
