An Unlikely Cornerstone
The Life & Times of Abbot Victor Farwell

Victor Farwell was without doubt a slow starter in monastic life.To his contemporaries he seemed an unremarkable also ran,whose lack of academic talents would hold him back.Instead it spurred him on, and he developed rare gifts ofhuman in sight and understanding. in time this slow starterled the way, gaining the confidence of his own communityand the other monasteries who followed his lead for decades.Here is his story.