The monastery of Casamari in Italy was built in the 11th century on the foundations of a temple dedicated to Ceres, the Greek ...

they created the Cistercian rule and order in 1098 and grew to be known as the “White Monks.” The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey ...

At the Abbey of Our Lady of New Clairvaux ... a secluded area normally reserved for the monks. Founded in 1955, the monastery belongs to the Trappist-Cistercian order of the Roman Catholic ...

THE top historic attractions around the UK have been revealed and and beautiful former monastery in Yorkshire has come out on top. Which? asked 3,000 people what their favourite historic ...

The researchers began their investigation at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey in Champagne, France, which holds 1,450 medieval books produced by scribes at this Cistercian abbey, part of a Catholic ...

It was to become second only to Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire as the most important Cistercian monastery in the country. At the time of the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536, the Abbot ...

Monks are like that. Arturo Amos, Aiden Rachford and Paul Andrew Tanner are Trappist monks at New Melleray Abbey in Peosta ... when it arose at a Cistercian monastery in La Trappe, France ...

While these furry tomes would seem at home in Hogwarts library, they were originally made in the scriptorium of Clairvaux Abbey, a hub for an order of Catholic monks, the Cistercians. The abbey ...

On that date, the monks of Mount Melleray Abbey (Waterford) and New Mellifont Abbey (Louth) will relocate to join their brethren of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance at Mount Saint ...

The Cistercian monks described seals as the "sea calf," and there is no existing written record of the purchase or any use of sealskin at Clairvaux Abbey. The use of sealskin in bindings appears ...