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

American author and essayist Shemaiah Gonzalez has released her latest book, Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight, a luminous collection of essays exploring joy as a resilient ...

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 ...

Relocating the school to the abbey would lessen the Benedictine Society's financial burden of maintaining and operating two properties. Last year, the society sold its North Sheppard Street ...

Archaeologists are set to conclude a four-week long dig at the site of a Benedictine abbey. Cerne Abbey in Dorset was demolished in 1539 during the Dissolution and, until excavations last year ...

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 ...