An extract from the book "The Benedictine Nuns and Kylemore Abbey: A History" by Deirdre Raftery & Catherine Kilbride (Irish Academic Press) ...

Pluscarden Abbey's community of Benedictine monks in the cloister ... and they told us they thought monasteries existed only in books and museums. And here it was, alive and active, and that ...

The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about ...

Once far from the beaten track, the near 950-year-old Benedictine abbey now struggles on some ... The library's 70-metre-long hall is packed with 70,000 books. While it was opened in 1776, the ...

After the resurrection of the historic Cistercian barn at Boulaur (southwest France), and the expansion of La Lucerne Abbey in Normandy, it is now the turn of the Benedictine Abbey of Sainte-Marie ...

Benedictine Abbot Placid Solari is biased. But you’ll have to forgive a man who has worked and served at Belmont Abbey College for nearly 50 years. “We are a jewel here in Gaston County with a ...

Pluscarden Abbey's community of Benedictine monks in the cloister ... and they told us they thought monasteries existed only in books and museums. And here it was, alive and active, and that ...