‘It will be deeply sad’: Monks reflect on closure of Waterford monastery after almost 200 years
Mount Melleray Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the foothills of the Knockmealdown mountains, now houses only six monks and ...
A new chapter begins for the Cistercian monks, but some things haven’t changed
The regime at Our Lady of Silence will be removed from the austerities of La Trappe. The rules on diet, work and silence ...
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Did the Vikings and monks get along?
Unlike the rest of the population who generally couldn’t read or write, it was left to highly educated monks to record the events of the time. Written in a mixture of Irish and Latin ...