BERLIN (AP) — A Cistercian monastery that's existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, due to a shortage of monks. The Himmerod Abbey, founded in 1134 by the ...
RSVP journalist Shauna Bannon Ward's visit to Glencairn was to witness why young women are drawn to a cloistered life in ...
As Pope Francis prepares to visit Indonesia, the founding superior of a monastery in Java shares what life is like for Catholics in a majority-Muslim country. When Sister Martha Driscoll and nine ...
A decade-long excavation project uncovered around 120,000 artifacts at a medieval monastery, a book has revealed. Rushen Abbey was founded as a Cistercian monastery in A.D. 1134 on the Isle of Man—a ...
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