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The Alcobaça monastery: The splendor of Cistercian austerity
22 Mar 2024 18:08 GMT
… and industrious nature of Cistercian life. The scriptorium, … in preserving and disseminating religious texts during a … authority and promoting the Christianization of newly conquered territories … continues to inspire. For Catholic pilgrims, it offers a …
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Out & About: The Catholic Foundation Award Dinner
13 Mar 2024 16:50 GMT
… local religious, charitable, and educational needs throughout the local Catholic … sweethearts, and longtime supporters of Catholic churches, schools, and major philanthropic … Cistercian Preparatory School. The Scholar Award recognizes a local Catholic …
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Depicting the Whole Christ: Von Balthasar & Sacred Architecture
10 Mar 2024 23:34 GMT
… its proper place in Catholic theology. In his lifetime … of Christ, acts as an image of Christ. Parables, Christian art, … incapacity of “creating genuine religious art” would be a … Some churches are more silent than others (many Cistercian monasteries for …
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5 Fascinating Catholic sites not to miss in Florida
09 Mar 2024 22:06 GMT
… and converting the natives to Christianity. Father Francisco López de … of the shrine’s many religious and cultural events, don … Lady Queen of the Martyrs Catholic Church, Sarasota
Tucked away in … 1141 and was home to Cistercian monks for nearly 700 years. …
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Factsheet: Monasticism in the UK
27 Mar 2024 15:13 GMT
… and practices
On entering religious life, Christian monks and nuns take … for example, Benedictine and Cistercian, women are more likely … vulnerable.
By contrast, Cistercians live a far less … both the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches in Britain. Between …
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Catholic ‘Gladiator School’ Aide Cleared of All Charges
07 Mar 2024 23:56 GMT
… Rome has cleared a British Catholic layman of all charges concerning … ’s academy for the Judeo-Christian West — ‘the gladiator school’ — … years had been home to Cistercian friars until they ran out … academy’s reassertion of Judeo-Christian values, and Bannon’s …
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Islands of Ireland: Oak, yew and strawberry trees — and serenity — at Monk’s Island, County Sligo
23 Feb 2024 07:04 GMT
… 15th-century Cistercian community on Church Island — about 150metres away. Friar’s Island … minor importance with no significant religious buildings. The archaeological record bears …
The likelihood is that monks based on Church Island took their currachs over …
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Spiritual Journeys: Religious Architecture in the Global South
19 Feb 2024 13:17 GMT
… 1013469/spiritual-journeys-religious-architecture-in-the-global … .
This exploration of religious architecture in the global … a community of monks from the Cistercian Trappist. After relocating … top of three religious spaces: a church, a synagogue, …
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An outing to the abbey built for banished monks
11 Feb 2024 06:28 GMT
… the first new monastic church in Ireland since the … Ballybricken, he was a Cistercian priest at Melleray Abbey in Brittany … government had decreed that foreign religious should be exiled from … communities then rallied to the monks’ aid. From the surrounding …
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A campus abuzz: Bees arrive at Cistercian Preparatory School
08 Feb 2024 23:10 GMT
… (Cistercian Preparatory School photo)
By Amy White
The Texas Catholic
“It … of beekeeping equipment—to Cistercian.
Embracing apiculture
Since the … to a senior to a monk,” Father Schaner said. “ … certainly, I think, a Christian and even more specifically a …