It’s called the Forest Hill Abbey. But nuns and monks never occupied it. This abbey is actually a mausoleum, a large one with ...

After high school, he joined the Trappist Monastery at New Melleray Abbey in Dubuque, Iowa, as a cloistered monk, Brother Francis de Sales (we all thought he took that name because dad was a car ...

New Melleray, an imposing limestone abbey founded 153 years ago by Irish monks, was once home to as many as 150 adherents but is now down to 38.

Whatever work is done must also be part of that spiritual focus. For nearly 160 years, the Trappist monks of New Melleray Abbey have worked with their hands to support their lives of prayer.

The closure comes almost two centuries after the abbey was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to Ireland from the Cistercian monastery in Melleray in France ...

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Fr Richard Purcell, abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey, during prayer in west Waterford. He is preparing for the closure of the Waterford monastery after almost 200 years.

One of the country's best known Cistercian abbeys, Mount Melleray in west Waterford, is to close this weekend after almost two centuries. Falling numbers and an ageing community is being blamed ...

HUNDREDS of people flocked to a historic abbey yesterday ahead of a ‘difficult’ closure. Mount Melleray Abbey in Waterford, regarded as one of Ireland’s most famous, held Sunday m… ...

Mount Melleray got its first 'daughter house' when monks from Ireland helped establish St Bernard's Abbey in England two years later. In 1849, monks from Mount Melleray helped found New Melleray ...

On November 3, the monks of Mt Melleray Abbey, Mount St Joseph Abbey (Roscrea) and Mellifont Abbey (Louth) voted to form a union. The monks of these three communities are coming together to form a new ...