The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks ... There was a bath house (with hot water) and a ...

Fr. Cassian Folsom is the founder and prior of the Monks of Norcia, an order of Benedictine monks in the Italian hometown of Saint Benedict and his sister Saint Scholastica. The monks — who ...

The Basilica di San Benedetto and the adjoining monastery, which Benedictine monks had inhabited continuously for 16 years, was seriously damaged in the first series of quakes, in late summer.

(CNN)-- Father Theodore Heck, believed to be the oldest Benedictine monk in the world, died Wednesday at the age of 108, his abbey in Indiana announced. Born in Iowa in 1901, Heck was less than a ...