Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in ...

Gertrude of Poland, a duchess with royal lineage and deep piety, stands as the first Polish writer known by name. Her Latin ...

The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks ... No fire was allowed and in the early Middle Ages ...

St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, planted a rose garden at his early monastery in Subiaco near Rome (c. 500). The two major medieval works on garden design and horticulture were by the ...

The Basilica di San Benedetto and the adjoining monastery, which Benedictine monks had inhabited continuously for 16 years, was seriously damaged in the first series of quakes, in late summer.

Benedictine monks from the Pembrokeshire coast occupied it in the Middle Ages, but its modern transformation began in the early 20th Century. Aelred Carlyle, or "druid Abbot", founded the modern ...

The medieval skeletons were found beside Down ... Archaeologists first thought they had found the lost cemetery of 13th Century Benedictine monks. But they have said the oldest skeleton is that ...

My regular visits have guided how I approach my home and family life, which, though not a monastery itself, can emulate the regular rhythm of prayer, work, and fraternity.

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in medieval times ... banned from London. One Benedictine monk became ...