When it is working at full capacity, the altar bread department at St. Cecilia's Abbey produces millions of hosts a year, bringing revenue to the community of Benedictine nuns on the Isle of Wight, an ...

Sister Anne Bartol, a Poor Clare, prepares altar breads at the Monastery of St. Clare in Langhorne, Pa., in this undated photo. The nuns make up to three million altar breads at their bakery each year ...

The sisters in Clyde were already running a school and a print shop when they branched off into altar bread production in 1910. "We were the largest religious producer of altar breads in the U.S.," ...

CLYDE, Mo. -- Hidden in the quiet countryside of Clyde, Mo., is a thriving industry. Without a storefront and a fancy marketing campaign, the altar bread produced by the Benedictine Sisters of ...