ON February 7, 1945, under a cold winter sky, Yugoslav Partisans stormed the Franciscan Monastery at Siroki Brijeg in ...

Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

Almost all of them were run by the Church. Many were monastery infirmaries, eg Tintern, Valle Crucis and Strata Florida, or other religious houses, eg the Franciscan friaries in Cardiff and Bangor.

While the church received rich Baroque ornamentation, the hermitage houses, like monastery cells, were devoid of decoration but surrounded by gardens, orchards and vegetable beds, where the monks ...

In 1065 Edward the Confessor gave orders for the consecration of the abbey church of the Benedictine monastery. That great church was to be the centre of life for the monks of Westminster. Following ...

Each character in The Stone of Madness, including a mute man, an orphan and a woman proficient in witchcraft, has strengths ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

A monastery in Nottingham could be knocked down and turned into a community garden space after plans were submitted for its demolition on the grounds it is no ...