" The monastery located on west Dixie highway in north Miami Beach a site of about twenty acres that formerly was a landscape nursery that explains this profusion of tropical vegetation all over the place we're also visiting. The episcopal church of St. Bernadette Clair bowl a very active episcopal parish. Like so many great American stories this involves a colorful American character William Randolph Hearst. Around the 1920 W was 1925. Mister Hurst is traveling in Spain and he comes across the monastery of Saint Bernard declare role in Segovia and he finds out that it's been boarded up and unused since the 1830s. Mister Hurst decides to buy it and he finds out that for half a million dollars that cloistered. The part of of the monastery known as the cloister can be his along with them out buildings. So he buys it. He manages to have it all packed stone by stone. In over 10000 crates each stone wrapped in it's brought to protected and ships the whole lot to New York City. But twist of fate. When the whole shipment arrives in New York City it's quarantined because the US Department of Agriculture has discovered that there's an epidemic up open mouth disease back in Spain and so they force. Every single crate open so that they can remove the straw that might be carrying the disease. And here's where the funny part occurs when it but the stones back in the -- don't bother to match him with a numbered crates thus creating one of history's greatest jigsaw puzzles. Well mister Hearst plans were to take the cloister back to California where he was finishing construction of Hearst castle San Simeon and use it as a pool surround. Outdoors. That was not to happen -- For one thing mister -- suffered some financial setbacks in the -- in the late twenties as did many Americans and what happened to all these rates was that they were simply put in a warehouse in Brooklyn New York where they remain for the next 26 years."

" So in the early 1950s. A couple of businessmen find out about the cloister in the warehouse they buy it with the idea of bringing it to Miami as a tourist attraction. Well it took them a million and a half dollars and almost two years to reassemble. The whole cloister. And shortly there after they discovered that it wasn't such a good business idea anyway. They sell the property to the episcopal church and it once again is the churches Saint Bernard declare ball let's go inside now I'd meet father Bailey."

" Hello holly -- Hello -- good to see you could see you this is one of the few episcopal church is I've visited it is also a tourist attraction. That's right we try to do -- an angle and you to a very good job I'm told tell us what is exactly is a cloister. The cloister is basically a square. It is a part of a monastery. -- where the months. Say -- daily offices in him and where they experienced their sense of quiet and their sense of community so it is a place of silenced it is we exactly where we begin visualize the monkey in his. Hooded -- kind of with his arms crossed -- saying. Either saying his prayers to himself for meditating -- in this exquisite -- The squares may be 75 feet in every direction. And it seems like there's triple arches here in double -- is there a lot of variety. Now what's this is this something as part of the original cloister. This is no it was a part of -- acquisition was going throughout Europe to gather things together to put in his backyard. Exactly large backyard and is this from Spain also know this is city second century. Roman capital that a top of the column it's a column capitol and be beautiful. What do cloister of had. Other separate rooms because I know that the monastery proper would have been perhaps a very large building but with the -- have had separate rooms that gave off of the pollinate. Yes our chapel. -- debate among three factory where they would gather from Beatles and we also have a chapter house a place for gathering for. Discussions and where they received their orders from the -- let's take a look at."

" One of the most notable aspects of this. Monastery cloister is -- chapel. And as a part of our worship center there are two telescopic windows. Two -- three that are known. To being in existence the telescopic windows -- from five feet. Down to three feet each one very precise. And giving. Details. In twelfth centuries stained glass of two of the aspects. Of what the scripture that is the original stained glass dissident."

" And the statue here this is this that's true. One of the two that we have here this one is -- spots the eighth. And one of the patrons since this is a royal monastery and Alfonse. Is. Commemorated that memorialized in this statue which was just outside. The monastery cloister and because they wouldn't -- had any statuary within the monastery. No statuary. Follow this on the check our house and -- this is where the minds that we can't check -- there's any outside news gathering. Where they would listen to. Rule a chapter in the rules and benefit and where they would. These to discuss. It all in order ranks. The instructions that they would be given by the yet -- it's -- right after spending the better part of today silences as. In chapter where they actually don't talk to another. Yes because. They would be spent in silent. In war in the chapel where they would be saying they hours."

" The acoustics in this chapter house are unbelievable I imagine it's because of these series of growing bulbs throughout the ceiling is all of its original."

" Yes it is original resting on these four columns. Standing for Matthew Mark Luke and John the gospel the word balloons."