The Poor Clares have been part of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville since 1986, when they branched out from a monastery in ...

Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years as a nun in a traditional Carmelite monastery in Northumberland, England. The Akenside Priory, as she writes in her new memoir, “Cloistered,” was ...

So when I got a grant to spend three years documenting Roman Catholic nuns cloistered in Mexican monasteries, I jumped at the chance. In Puebla, Mexico, where I grew up, some Catholic churches are ...

Spanish police accused the excommunicated “abbess” of a monastery of Poor Clares of fraud after she sold 1.73kg of gold.

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 ...

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 ...

although only 24 were left when Henry VIII dissolved the monastery in 1540. But the community also included many lay servants, masons, and almsmen. Only the Pyx Chamber and the Undercroft in the ...