From left, Sister Maria Gonzalo, Sister Barbara Smickel and Sister Myriam Saint-Vilus take a break from cheese making to practice a song for Palm Sunday Mass.
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God’s gouda: Nuns in Albemarle County make cheese
Tucked in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, down a lengthy stretch off U.S. 250, over a bridge, through the woods and at the end of a gravel road sits Our Lady of the Angels Monastery perched on a hillside. The 13 nuns who live there believe God has a plan for everyone.
