Archaeologists believed they had unearthed the remains of a Byzantine monk buried beneath an ancient monastery in Jerusalem.

Meteora, Greece's hanging rocks with the red-roofed monasteries, has become the second most popular tourist destination in ...

Saint Eudokia of Heliopolis, a Samaritan woman from ancient Phoenicia (modern-day Lebanon), lived a life of extravagance and ...

I am not a white male U.S. citizen, so I am scared and angry. When I am angry, I organize, and am happy to tell you that so do many ...

Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem just concluded their second season of excavations at Hyrcania, where ...

Historians call it the Bauernkrieg or German Peasants’ War, but to people at the time it was simply the Aufruhr (‘the turmoil’). Through the second half of 1524 and into the summer of 1525, rebellion ...

"The name Benedict also evokes the extraordinary figure of the great 'patriarch of western monasticism,' St. Benedict of Norcia, co-patron of Europe with Cyril and Methodius. The progressive ...

The monastery, located about three kilometers northwest of Jerusalem’s Old City, dates back to between A.D. 350 and 650. During this period, Christian monasticism flourished, and Jerusalem became a ...

Ordained in Rome, John started monasteries in southern France, near Marseilles, thus helping to pioneer monasticism in Europe. His two main writings, Institutes of the Monastic Life and ...

Saint Vincent College is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the Catholic faith, the heritage of Benedictine monasticism, and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to ...

Pieter Bruegel The Elder was a prominent Flemish painter of the 16th century, famed for his vivid, often humorous depictions of peasant life and moral metaphors.