The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, cloistered at Our Lady of Ephesus priory in rural Gower, Mo., have sold 22,000 copies of their collection of hymns, chants and polyphony that ...

But what has made “Advent at Ephesus” a winner is the unadorned, limpid voices — with no instrumental accompaniment — of young nuns from the northwest Missouri priory of Our Lady of Ephesus.

Those from Ephesus show the statue and a reference to her name on the reverse. A Very Fine silver cistophorus of Hadrian, circa A.D. 128 to A.D. 138, realized a hammer price of $1,400.

Of Art and Beauty Sister Scholastica, the sub-prioress of Our Lady of Ephesus Priory, did the artwork for the Angels and Saints CD. Please tell us a little about the album’s artwork.

Sales of Caroling at Ephesus will go toward building a new priory church for the rapidly-expanding community. “The chapel we have been using for the last several years has served us well. But ...

Known as the B enedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, the nuns in their 20s and 30s live a cloistered and largely silent life at the Priory of Our Lady of Ephesus, in Missouri, 45 minutes north ...

The modest house lies 8km from Selçuk, Ephesus and 25 km from Kusadasi. St Gregory was Tours, 538-597 the first to write about a “venerated chapel” on a hill near Ephesus in his Liber Miraculorum. The ...