For a long time, there have been no monks in their characteristic white robes, with black scapulars, in the Cistercian monastery in Rudy, near Racibórz. The monastery was dissolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Before that, for nearly six centuries, people had prayed, culture had been spread, land cultivated, factories built in this corner of Silesia. A beautiful white church and a monastery complex of the Diocese of Gliwice – that is what has been left after the monks. Efforts are underway to put the complex onto the UNESCO World Heritage LiSt