A stunning Byzantine-era artwork from a Christian monastery in Israel was recently presented to the public for the first time ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world ...

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The Casamari pharmacy, still in operation after two centuries, remains a powerful symbol of the connection between monastic ...

Brother Joseph Zoettl never expected to build a miniature world. Yet between 1918 and 1958, this small monk from Bavaria ...

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Tween Book-to-Movie Club will meet to discuss “The Tale of Despereaux” at 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, at Lyons Community Library; lyons.librarycalendar.com. • Louisville History Book Club will ...

JTA — A man checked out dozens of books on Jewish history and other marginalized topics from a public library in a heavily Jewish Cleveland suburb last month before filming himself apparently ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...