Bellister Castle in Northumberland, England, is hitting the market for about $3.34 million, but there's a catch. It's a ...

How Mediterranean Monk Seals Became Vulnerable As the Marine Mammal Commission, an independent agency of the US Government details, the Mediterranean monk seal is the world’s rarest seal species, with ...

This isn’t your average monk story. At Malmesbury Abbey, one man of the cloth gained a dark reputation—as a violent, vengeful ...

Modern life bombards us with constant stimulation, endless notifications, and perpetual noise. When one individual decided to embrace monastic living for seven consecutive days, he discovered profound ...

Southern Europe is a living museum of stone, a sun-soaked land where time has learned to move slowly, and history lingers in ...

The Gospel says Jesus spent the last night before being crucified at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden. Come ...

These saints from centuries ago still speak urgently with timeless messages on community, knowledge, creativity, ...

With deeply-spiritual origins, and an important function in the religious framework of medieval England, Coventry's medieval Charterhouse priory was all but destroyed in the Reformation. But now, this ...

Life in a medieval village was surely no fairytale. Hard work, poverty, uncertainty of life and its comforts, the iron fist of the feudal lord - the disadvantages were numerous, and benefits few and ...

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...