In 1912, Alabama monk Brother Joseph Zoettl began recreating landmarks he had mostly never seen; 46 years later, at age 80, he finished the last of 125 miniatures
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September 7, 2026
Alabama monk Brother Joseph Zoettl In 1912, a Bavarian-born Benedictine monk at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama, began building miniature cement copies of some of the world’s best-known religious sites, using postcards, pieces of marble and donated…