I found myself on the back-acreage of a magnificent church—among oak trees and shrines and grottoes and birds—completely alone with my thoughts. The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

except that Alliata is wearing the chocolate brown habit of a Franciscan friar and his headquarters are in the Monastery of the Flagellation. According to church tradition, the monastery marks 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 ...

The Franciscan was in Spain last week for the 15th Ibero-American Congress on the Queen of Peace organized by the Medjugorje Center Foundation.