Plymouth, England, Oct 18, 2017 / 05:01 am. In 2018 one of England's historic monasteries will celebrate the millennium year of its foundation, offering a prime example of the contribution of ...

Archaeologists are digging to find a Benedictine abbey that has lain undisturbed for almost five centuries. Cerne Abbey in Dorset was demolished in 1539 during the Dissolution and the land has ...

IONA ABBEY, founded sometime prior to 1203 on the site where St Columba built his monastery in the sixth century, was built following Ranald Somerled’s invitation to the Benedictine order of ...

Benedictine monks pictured in the Litlyngton Missal. Early history. In 1245 Henry III began rebuilding much of the Church in the new Gothic style of architecture.Some monastic buildings from this ...

Stanbrook Abbey has been put up for sale - at £6m - and the entire Benedictine community is to move away to start again in North Yorkshire. The nuns have prayed, studied, and laboured from dawn until ...

Today, Pluscarden has a community of 15 Benedictine monks, some of whom hail from Nigeria, Australia, East Africa, Poland, England, and New Zealand. The abbey still receives vocational applications.

Archaeologists are digging to find a Benedictine abbey that has lain undisturbed for almost five centuries. Cerne Abbey in Dorset was demolished in 1539 during the Dissolution and the land has ...