宾州费尔菲尔德隐修修女手工建千年修道院：48英亩工程预计2041年完工
宾夕法尼亚州亚当斯县费尔菲尔德的一群隐修修女正在几乎全靠手工建造一座打算屹立1000年的大型石质修道院。
据《纽约邮报》10月25日报道，这座占地48英亩的耶稣、玛丽与约瑟夫加尔默罗修道院预计2041年完工，造价1亿美元，整个愿景出自41岁的特蕾兹姆姆，她是马萨诸塞州科德角一名消防员的女儿。修道院全部采用传统方法与材料建造，修女们在日常灵修、照料牲畜与菜园之余，亲自一块砖一块砖地打地基；较重的工程则请来外援，包括纽约知名建筑师里卡多·维琴齐诺与负责筹款的本地承包商乔·博尼费特。
特蕾兹姆姆在修道院客房的铁栅栏后接受专访时说：“我们有一个愿景、一个梦想，一种内在的直觉，觉得我们需要做一些不同的事，我们正在建造一座真实的建筑。”这群修女的历史可追溯至16世纪的西班牙，她们希望用传统工艺留下一座能经受千年考验的建筑。
来源：GSM·美国
Cloistered Nuns in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, Building a Monastery by Hand to Last 1,000 Years: 48-Acre Project Due to Finish in 2041
In Fairfield, Adams County, Pennsylvania, a group of cloistered nuns is building, almost entirely by hand, a large stone monastery intended to stand for 1,000 years.
According to an October 25 report in the New York Post, the 48-acre Carmelite Monastery of Jesus, Mary and Joseph is expected to be completed in 2041 at a cost of $100 million, and the whole vision comes from 41-year-old Mother Therese, the daughter of a firefighter from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The monastery is being built entirely with traditional methods and materials: alongside their daily prayers and their care of livestock and vegetable gardens, the nuns lay the foundations themselves, brick by brick, while heavier work is done with outside help, including well-known New York architect Ricardo Vicenzino and local contractor Joe Bonifet, who is in charge of fundraising.
In an interview given from behind the iron grille of the monastery's guest room, Mother Therese said: "We have a vision, a dream, an interior intuition that we need to do something different; we are building a real building." The nuns trace their history back to 16th-century Spain, and they hope to leave behind, through traditional craftsmanship, a building that can withstand the test of a thousand years.
Source: GSM·USA
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图片来源：宾夕法尼亚州费尔菲尔德的一座教堂（资料图）。图片来源：Smallbones / Wikimedia Commons，CC0。A church in Fairfield, Pennsylvania (file photo). Photo: Smallbones / Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
