From ink cartridges to dog biscuits, monks run thriving business

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SPARTA - As cloistered monks go, few are as enterprising as the Cistercians. An ancient order that broke off from the Benedictines, they were the builders of the Middle Ages, harnessing water power for milling and metalwork - industries that sustained the monks' simple lives of prayer and contemplation.

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