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Known as retreatants, 90 percent of the men are Catholic.

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I ate my meals in silence, at the far end of a long communal table, while a dozen or so staff and other retreatants sat at the other end talking and laughing.

This was not an apprehension my fellow retreatants appeared to share.

The only difficulty was the expense entailed, for many of the retreatants could pay nothing toward their board and lodging, and Vincent would refuse nobody.