While California is known for its vineyards, get off the beaten path with a visit to this stunning winery run by a ...

Review - Cipher Monk is a good puzzler and different in its approach, but it certainly needs some early explanation to get ...

The ceiling of the shrine shows St. Laszlo and Our Lady, one of the Marian markers with a view of pilgrims, and the shrine ...

The Cistercian monks described seals as the "sea calf," and there is no existing written record of the purchase or any use of sealskin at Clairvaux Abbey.

Cistercian monks first came to Ireland in 1142, at the invitation of St Malachy of Armagh, making their initial foundation at Mellifont in present-day Co Louth. The Cistercians, ...

But in other ways they have adapted to modern life. Monks in County Down have released a CD of Gregorian chants to raise funds and the near-silent order of Cistercian monks on Caldey Island, off the ...

DALLAS – Father Roch Kereszty may seem like just another monk at Cistercian Abbey in Irving, Texas. Nothing is unusual about how he leans on his cane; nothing different about how he’ll greet ...

Researchers discover Clairvaux Abbey’s medieval books were bound with seal skin, linking the Cistercian monks to global trade routes in the 13th century.

A group of Cistercians, or Trappist monks, bought the land from the Bishop of Providence, Matthew Harkins, which Fr. John Mary Murphy wrote was “more as a donation than a sale” in 1899, after ...

Researchers discover Clairvaux Abbey’s medieval books were bound with seal skin, linking the Cistercian monks to global trade routes in the 13th century.

Clean air, solitude... somewhere to dry your socks. One writer walks the Welsh mountains to find out why bothies are the best ...