A former monastery in Jamaica Plain could soon be home to apartments and condos, according to a development proposal filed ...

Almost all of them were run by the Church. Many were monastery infirmaries, eg Tintern, Valle Crucis and Strata Florida, or other religious houses, eg the Franciscan friaries in Cardiff and Bangor.

ON February 7, 1945, under a cold winter sky, Yugoslav Partisans stormed the Franciscan Monastery at Siroki Brijeg in now-Bosnia and Herzegovina. The soldiers dragged 30 Franciscan friars into the ...

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 ...

Sixteen Spanish nuns have announced they are breaking from the Catholic Church and instead placing ... The 16 Poor Clare ...

The monks sold the monastery in 1950 and established their order at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Mass., where they remain today. The town of Cumberland bought 525 acres from the Franciscan ...

An ecclesiastical source cited by the Nicaraguan newspaper states that the dictatorship’s envoys “first went to notify the sisters (in the Monastery of the Franciscan Poor Clare Sisters ...