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Our interview took place in the basement of the abbey during the time that the last items of furniture were being packed all around us being prepared for moving. A atmosphere of melancholy hung heavy in the room with the knowledge that these were the last days of the abbey’s once busy life. A few months after the interview was conducted, the abbey was in fact sold.

— Antonio

“I was born in northern Colorado in a small town near Greely named Eaton. I arrived and soon began my schooling at the abbey in 1931. I started the 8th grade and attended school for seven years, with a couple of years spent in college. After college, I decided to enter the religious life as a novitiate in the fall of 1938. In 1939 I took my vows. In 1944 I took my final vows and was ordained a priest.

I am not aware of any ghosts at the abbey, but it is an old building with a lot of history. The building itself looks very old and stately. Many things are stored here in the abbey’s basement some hold much special significance to Native American Indians. Who can say what these items have that is attached, spiritually, to them? I’m sure there are some people who can say they have experienced a ghost or two on the grounds, but I have not experienced anything.

I’ve been at the abbey for a total of 73 years. That’s a long time. After the abbey is sold I’ll be relocating to Kansas.

My attitude regarding the sale of the abbey is simply put this way: as things are born they ultimately will die. Some things are resurrected, and some are not. That is all.”

Fr. William Thompson, O.S.B.