Belmont Abbey College is a private, Catholic liberal arts college in Belmont, North Carolina. It was founded in 1876 by the Benedictine monks of Belmont Abbey.

The monks who started the college were wandering along a road and came upon a crossroad. There was an interesting huge granite flat rock. They were very intrigued by it.

As they talked to neighbors in town about it they were told that the rock was a major selling place for slaves in that sad time in our history.

Men, women, and children would stand on that rock and be sold into slavery. So, the monks decided to have it moved to their new monastery, and they dug out a well in its center, and they made that their baptismal font.

On it reads, “Upon this rock, people once were sold into slavery. Now upon this rock, through the waters of baptism, people become free children of God.”

Transform life where you see it, follow Christ where you are, wherever you are.

Thanks to Greg Rickle for sharing

Spend a few moments thinking about the men, women and children who stood on that rock and were sold into slavery. They then worked hard as slaves to make America great for YOU and me.

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