The origins of Pluscarden Abbey date back to 1230. It was established by King Alexander II for a community of monks who were part of the Valliscaulian Order. This order, known for its strict ...

In 649, St. Ouen of Rouen gave him the opportunity to settle in the valley of Fontenelle and established the monastery of Fontenelle, or Abbaye Saint-Wandrille (Abbey of St. Wandrille), using the ...

Called Lalys by locals, a mispronunciation of "al-Aziz", he is credited with building a number of monasteries, castles, and churches, including Neath Abbey in ... a retinue of monks and brown ...

National Geographic The other problem was that Holy Cross Abbey’s 1,200 acres—where monks produce fruitcake and creamed honey and rent land to tenant farmers—were also hurting. The beef ...

They were from a branch of Cistercians, present mostly in Francophone Europe, the monastery’s prior, Father Giles Conacher, told CNA. Pluscarden Abbey's cloister. Credit: Giles Conacher OSB ...

The Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz (Holy Cross) in Austria is the oldest in the world, dating back almost 1,000 years, and currently has more than 100 monks living there. It has never had ...

BELMONT, N.C. — A woman and man were caught on video doing what some would call unthinkable: Stealing from monks at Belmont Abbey College. Channel 9′s Ken Lemon visited the campus to speak ...

Two people broke into the Belmont Abbey monastery and robbed the monks who live there, according to Belmont Abbey campus police. The two people, a man and a woman, first went to a campus ...

Founded in 1130 by Norman knight Sir Richard de Granville, Neath served as a Cistercian monastery, and was once the largest abbey in Wales. Its substantial ruins can still be seen, set as they are ...

Magnetically attractive, abbeys are islands of serenity in a chaotic world. And so it is that the dreamy spires of Mount Melleray Abbey, County Waterford, act as an almost irresistible attraction ...