Eastern Mennonite University's upcoming play is based on a true story about a nun who didn't quite fit the stereotypical mold ...

Buried beneath desert sands for over a millennium, a hidden monastery has emerged in Israel—revealing how early Christian ...

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution ...

Durga and Sundar — who are members of the Ramakrishna and Brahma Kumaris orders, respectively — described Hindu monasticism as a way to affect broad change by starting within the self.

Learning From Silence' recounts his refuge in a Benedictine monastery after losing everything in a wildfire. Describing th ...

St. Louis architecture has a style all its own. You can look at many St. Louis houses and instantly know that they are from ...

However, few are as unique or as shrouded in mystique as Mount Athos, an autonomous monastic state in Greece. Nestled on a ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Credit: St. Anthony’s Monastery The monastery is named after St. Anthony the Great (ca. 251–356), the renowned Egyptian ascetic, known as “the father of monasticism.” The monastery follows the ...

At the time of her burial in the 5th century, Christianity was rapidly spreading, and monasticism was flourishing. Byzantine monks, known for their extreme devotion, often renounced all earthly ...