But after a forest fire reduced my home and everything in it to ash, and I was spending months sleeping on a friend’s floor, I’d started to make retreats in this Benedictine hermitage a friend ...

When the monks bake at the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur ... This time of year, orders for holiday fruitcakes and Holy Granola" are pouring in to this remote Benedictine monastery, perched ...

The Alte Pinakothek version of Jordaens' Holy Family, c. 1620–25 Courtesy of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium The Hermitage version of Jordaens' Holy Family, c. 1650s–60s Courtesy of ...