Jeff Brazier is not the easiest man to pin down for a chat. His life involves “lots of travel”. A recent journey by the ...

Pico Iyer is the author of 17 books, including the bestsellers The Open Road, The Art of Stillness, and The Half Known Life.

Amidst the decline of Catholicism in France, the reconstruction of the Abbey of St. Wandrille emerges as a powerful sign of ...

The site is also home to a Benedictine abbey, a boys’ Catholic Gregorian choir school, and a basilica situated underground in an excavated space in the mountain. A 492-foot cross, the largest in ...

St. Andrew’s Benedictine Abbey in Valyermo, and other places that she enjoyed. She also enjoyed getaways to the desert and beach with her friends. As Angie’s nieces and nephews became adults ...

Dissatisfied with the rules of the Benedictine abbey they called ... The books a abbey were found along trade routes and near fairs where monks were known to visit, researchers said.

He also published collections of Irish folk songs and was conductor of the London Bach Choir. In 1902 he was knighted and his many pupils included Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams, both of ...

The Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Trinity in Cava de' Tirreni is preparing to celebrate its thousand years of existence once again. After the grand event of 2011, this time the celebrations will ...