and Benedictine congregations. I ended up reading about monasticism and monastic life and remembered my first visit to the Abbey Church of Our Lady of Montserrat. I recalled that Father Casal was ...

Equal parts natural park and spiritual destination, Montserrat is a popular day trip from Barcelona. Visitors can take a cable car or railway up to the Benedictine monastery, which hosts a ...

Montserrat means “serrated mountain,” and these rugged peaks hide the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat, sitting at nearly 4,000 feet elevation and carved into the mountainside.

One outing is Montserrat, spectacularly perched amid the craggy Catalonian serras (mountain chains) north of the city. The Benedictine monastery up here marks its 1000th anniversary in 2025 with ...

Popular walk, open to the Barça family, celebrates the 125th anniversary of FC Barcelona and the millennium of the Abbey of ...

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 ...

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 midnight display, involving 200 drones, formed Catholic icons including the Virgin of Montserrat, Pope Francis, the abbey itself, and the surrounding multi-peaked mountain. The event was part of ...

The midnight display, involving 200 drones, formed Catholic icons including the Virgin of Montserrat, Pope Francis, the abbey itself, and the surrounding multi-peaked mountain. The event was part ...