The Poor Clares have been part of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville since 1986, when they branched out from a monastery in ...

A procession of nuns—permitted to leave their convent for a day and visit a Franciscan monastery—walk past a sunny wall in Cholula, Mexico. Cloistered nuns may also go out for a doctor’s or ...

In the ancient refectory of the Franciscan monastery (now the museum) attached to the church of Santa Croce in Florence, there is a fragment of a Hell fresco (fig. 1) discovered in 1942 behind an ...

All operations within the friary will be shuttered at the end of June, 2017. News of The Franciscan friars of Holy Name Province is provided here. One would think that this Medina sandstone ...

An active monastery, St. Anthony's serves as a popular ... And visitors are welcome to stay overnight in St. Anthony's Franciscan Guest House next door. Art fans can find a collection stunning ...

Located inside the Franciscan monastery of Santa Croce, it was founded in 1950 by Marcello Gori and his brother-in-law ...

Many were monastery infirmaries, eg Tintern, Valle Crucis and Strata Florida, or other religious houses, eg the Franciscan friaries in Cardiff and Bangor. However, these medieval hospitals were ...