The third grade students at St. Louis School in Alexandria agreed to participate in King Arthur Baking Company’s “Bake for ...

Father Giuseppe Pagano is furious. The 65-year-old Augustinian friar and his three fellow monks, who have dedicated their ...

The Cloisters were one of the busiest parts of the Abbey where the monks spent much of their time. A fire in 1298 damaged much of the area of the cloisters of the Norman church so they had to be ...

Other suggested skipping the monastery altogether and instead suggested spending time in the chapel, which is free to visit. Admission to the Cloister costs 12 euros (about $13) for adults ...

Poor Clare nuns are cloistered, meaning, they spend their lives in the monastery, praying and working, rather than ministering to the needy out in the world. Members of the order pledge chastity ...

The church and three-wing monastery embrace an ‘open’ courtyard. In the past, it was surrounded with galleries, but the entrance to the cloister garden had to be cut in the portal of the southern ...