Irish monk named in US list of top US business people

Sunday, December 20, 2009

An Irish monk has taken the commercial world by surprise after been named in a list of the top 100 Irish-American businessmen thanks to his €1,800 coffins.

Br Brendan Freeman, a 71-year-old monk, based in Peosta, Iowa, has been named alongside industrial tycoons and business moguls in the list compiled by Irish American Magazine.
The publication said, "the executives profiled here represent some of the most powerful corporations in the world.”

But that is not how Br Freeman who has both Irish and American citizenship and his fellow monks at New Melleray Abbey would describe themselves or their decade old Trappist caskets business.

These men have dedicated their lives to prayer but must support themselves and their 160-year-old monastery founded and built by Irish monks. the rest image