In Germany, kids can spend a year in a monastery after leaving school


By AGENCY
  • People
  • Friday, 14 Apr 2023

Peter (right) and Father Bohl, who oversees life at the monastery, sit together and talk about the voluntary year and what it means to the monks. Photos: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa

Peter Roberg, 18, kneels down in a graveyard overshadowed by the baroque monastery church on the Frauenberg hill in Fulda, central Germany.

He takes a paintbrush and freshens up the inscription on a gravestone in the monastery cemetery with some white paint.

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