A group of Cistercians, or Trappist monks ... To the left of the library, stairs from an old chapel, lost to a fire, lead nowhere. The chapter wing built in 1931, the Novitiate where training ...

Next Sunday, January 26th, 2025, will be a date of historic significance for one of Ireland’s oldest – and for hundreds of years most influential – religious orders, the Cistercians.

This clock is a digital representation of an ancient numeral system used by 13th century Cistercian monks before the Indo-Arabic system that we know and love today took over. It’s a compact ...

The hospital was demolished in 1966 leaving just the chapel remaining, but a Cistercian monk called Blind Peter who guards the abbey’s hidden treasure can sometimes be seen on Halloween night.

According to tradition, the ceiling was originally sited at Valle Crucis Abbey, a former Cistercian abbey just ... got to work on his Sistine Chapel frescoes. Bardic stanzas suggest the original ...