The Casamari pharmacy, still in operation after two centuries, remains a powerful symbol of the connection between monastic ...

STUDLEY Park is a fine area of parkland surrounding Fountain’s Abbey. This walk explores the Abbey ruins, the grounds and ...

A number of structures and features under the courtyard have been revealed, including a major aqueduct and medieval buildings, which once formed part of the Cistercian Abbey, along with some ...

One of the country's best known Cistercian abbeys, Mount Melleray in west Waterford, is to close this weekend after almost two centuries. Falling numbers and an ageing community is being blamed ...

However, that field was once home to Cambridgeshire's only Cistercian abbey where monks lived and worshipped. Sawtry Abbey was founded in 1147 by Simon de Senlis, earl of Huntingdon and ...

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 ...

But the land behind the Axminster Carpets Factory Outlet holds a secret that you may not have been aware of – it was once the site of a Cistercian abbey as big as Exeter Cathedral. For a long ...

While the other priests slowly walked into Cistercian Abbey Sunday morning dressed in cream-colored garments, Marton followed them bedecked in crimson and gold. This was, after all, his Golden ...

The Rev. Peter Verhalen, abbot of Cistercian Abbey Our Lady of Dallas, sprinkles holy water on the caskets of the Revs. Damian Szodenyi and Rudolph Zimanyi during their entombment service.

Text description provided by the architects. The Abbey Church uses native Texas limestone to reflect on the 1000-year old Cistercian Order founded in 1096 during the Romanesque period. The austere ...