ROME (RNS) When the earth shook and the walls came tumbling down in Norcia earlier this week, the Benedictine monks who live in the picturesque central Italian town somehow survived without a scratch.

The monks’ CD, Benedicta, is music based on Scripture, especially Psalms and the life of the Virgin Mary, plus passages from the 1,500-year-old guide for monastic living, The Rule of St. Benedict.

People no longer need to travel to this birthplace of St. Benedict to hear the monks, because their chants and hymns are on a CD that’s topped the Billboard charts this summer in classical ...

The Italian state has offered to restore all ... a small community of exile Czech Benedictine monks from Emaus abbey in Prague was established in the town and stayed there until the 1990s when ...

No, what’s got the real aficionados buzzing is a CD of centuries-old music sung by a group of Benedictine monks from the quiet Italian city of Norcia. Norcia is a community of stone streets and ...

In a monastery tucked away in a quiet back lane of Bangalore, India, Benedictine monks of the Vallombrosian Order are using their European connections to meet rising demand for fresh, Italian ...

Cassian Folsom is the founder and prior of the Monks of Norcia, an order of Benedictine monks in the Italian hometown of Saint Benedict and his sister Saint Scholastica. The monks — who ...

But in 2000 they were invited to transfer to Norcia, the birthplace of St. Benedict ... of brewing from the trappist monks in Belgium and found a niche in the Italian market, because craft ...

Cardin, a Benedictine monk, told the Italian paper La Stampa that he was preparing an exhibit on the Shroud in his library when he came across a document that he believes shows the Shroud was ...

A limited number of humans remain relevant long after their last breath. One such soul is St. Benedict. This Italian monk from the sixth century began a movement that endures and is international.

BELMONT, N.C. -- Roman Catholics regard Benedict, an Italian monk who died around 547, as the patron saint of Europe, kidney disease victims, nettle rash sufferers, spelunkers and servants who ...

In a monastery tucked away in a quiet back lane of Bangalore, India, Benedictine monks of the Vallombrosian Order are using their European connections to meet rising demand for fresh, Italian ...