"Pandhof next to the Dom Church." Photo by Bart van Leeuwen / Flickr (cropped from original). CC BY 2.0. This series examines monastic movements amid broader religious and cultural traditions. It ...

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547) was first brought to England at the end of the sixth century with the Roman mission led by Augustine, the first bishop of Canterbury (579–c. 509). Among the monastic communities that were founded ...

Mount Athos, referred to in Greek as the "Holy Mountain", is one of the most important centers of the Christian Orthodox world.

Her analysis of more than thirty such communities of monastic women in the later Middle Ages contradicts what was until recently a dismal assessment of women's monastic lives after the Gregorian ...

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Remains of cells once inhabited by the Ukrainian saint, Paisius Velichkovsky, have been discovered on Mount Athos.

The Butley seal (left) was used to leave the priory's mark of the Virgin and child (right) on documents A 10-year-old metal detectorist has found a rare monastic seal while searching a field.