Separately, in 1932, a community of Cistercian nuns (Trappistines) came from Stapehill in Dorset to establish St Mary’s Abbey at Glencairn, Co Waterford. Today, although some monasteries have ...

As of 2024, All About Mary ... last abbey for four years, dying in the odor of sanctity on September 8, 1252, while visiting the abbey of Vaudy, in Lincolnshire. Although Stephen of Sawley is not ...

After almost two centuries, the Cistercian Abbey closed yesterday as three communities merged and relocated to Roscrea, Co Tipperary. The communities of Mount Melleray, Mellifont, Co Louth and St ...

Last November, the order decided to merge three abbeys, Mount Melleray, Mellifont in Louth and Mount St Joseph in ... historic home. The Cistercian Order said closing the abbey was a very ...

The Cistercian ... of St Malachy, have already merged as one new single community, will be based, for an interim period, at Roscrea. “This new community has been given the name of ‘The Abbey ...

The Bury St Edmunds Society has awarded £10,000 to the Abbey of St Edmund heritage project, becoming the first organisation in the west Suffolk town to provide financial support. It forms part ...

Pilgrims are flocking one last time to one of Munster’s best-known abbeys, run by the Cistercian monks in ... by the monks of Mt Melleray Abbey, Mt St Joseph Abbey in Roscrea, and Mellifont ...

St. John brought people to love Christ and the Virgin Mary by speaking tirelessly about their Heart, the sign of the love God shows for us and the communion to which we are called. To offer them ...

In 1065 Edward the Confessor gave orders for the consecration of the abbey church of the Benedictine monastery. That great church was to be the centre of life for the monks of Westminster. Following ...

Sir George Villiers and his wife Mary Countess of Buckingham have a white marble monument with effigies in the chapel of St Nicholas in Westminster Abbey. Mary died on 19th April 1632 and was buried a ...

In this Sunday’s Gospel passage of the Wedding Feast at Cana, there is a theological portrait of both Mother Mary and prayer. Mary is the quintessential paragon of prayer. Not only does she ...

Twelve months later, the Pope decreed that the feast of Mary Help of Christians, be kept on the 24th of May. St. John Bosco (1815 - 1888) was a dynamic priest who founded the Salesian Order in the ...