Select 'Book Abbey and Monastery tour tickets' and enter your chosen date and time (the time slot must be before or the same time as the tour time slot) and select your general admission tickets. You ...

The typical menu for a monastery in medieval Europe was a selection of pottage (soup or stew) prepared with local vegetables ...

Many were monastery infirmaries, eg Tintern, Valle Crucis and Strata Florida, or other religious houses, eg the Franciscan friaries in Cardiff and Bangor. However, these medieval hospitals were ...

Father Luke Jolly explains what interns can expect when they join Worth Abbey A monastery is offering internships to five young men, inviting them to learn more about the secretive lives of monks.

In 2021, archaeologists searching the bank of the Thames in England stumbled upon a medieval building near a modern-day ...

This raid, on the monastery at Rathlin Island off the Antrim ... in Ireland from the time of Saint Patrick until the Middle Ages. Unlike the rest of the population who generally couldn’t read ...

Their recent decline in numbers saddens me. I explain why in my 2021 memoir, “Monastery Mornings: My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks,” about growing up at an old Trappist monastery ...