The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about ...

The restoration will ensure that it is a Benedictine home for future generations. “The monastery has existed for nearly 14 centuries, though with interruptions,” Dom Jean-Charles Nault ...

An exhibition at the Palau Robert in Barcelona explores, from today until January 6, the history of the Montserrat monastery, on the occasion of the commemoration of its thousand years of foundation.

The island of Reichenau on Lake Constance preserves the traces of the Benedictine monastery, founded in 724, which exercised remarkable spiritual, intellectual and artistic influence. The churches of ...