I arrived at the monastery with a suitcase full of expectations. I was looking for something—peace, perspective, maybe even a mystical, movie-montage kind of transformation. Instead, I found something ...

The facial reconstruction was based on an anthropomorphic and forensic study, historical evidence and contemporary ...

Brightly dressed boys and girls mounted on horses and carts, accompanied by their guardians, make their way to a Buddhist ...

MY flight hadn’t even taken off before one of the country’s residents, a passenger in the neighbouring seat, asked why in the ...

The Hôpital-Général de Québec monastery, located at the intersection of the Saint-Roch and Saint-Sauveur neighbourhoods in the city of Québec, is a large convent complex dating back to the 17 th ...

You can visit the monastery through the main road that reaches the Chapel of the Transfiguration. From there, a small path of about 800 metres leads to the monastery, which stands out literally ...

The event of the Transfiguration recounted in today’s Gospel describes the pattern of the Christian life, which is the Paschal mystery. We are always dying and rising with Christ in repeated ...

Have you ever walked a prayer labyrinth or even know what it is? It is a one-way path in a circle that leads to a center spot where you open your heart to listen to God. It is a prayer where you empty ...

The oldest icon of Jesus Christ and the Crucifixion is in St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt, from the 8th Century. As we know, the early Byzantine and post-Byzantine paintings continue the ...

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After more than a century, the Poor Clares, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, have moved out of their historic monastery in the 700 block of Henry Clay Avenue near Audubon Park, leaving vacant an ...