Articles on this issue "Cistercians"
She entered the Cistercian Buenafuente del Sistal Convent the day that Joseph Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI) was born, and today Sister Teresa is 103 years old and the world's record holder for …
read moreThe abbot of Hauterive, Switzerland, Father Mauro Giuseppe Lepori, was elected abbot general of the Cistercian Order. The election was held Sept. 2 during the order's general chapter of …
read moreA Cistercian monk proposed by Pope John Paul II as a model for youth is set to be canonized this October. Blessed María Rafael Arnaiz Baron, known as Brother Rafael, will be recognized as a …
read moreThe Cistercian monks of the Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey are unlikely candidates to make pop music's Top 10 list -- but they did just that, debuting at No. 9 in the United Kingdom. A CD of their …
read moreThe General Chapter of the Cistercian Order ended with the re-election of Abbot General Maur Esteva Alsina of the Catalan monastery of Poblet. Also re-elected as the order's procurator general …
read moreArgentine Bernardo Olivera has been the abbot general of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance since 1990. The assembly that chose him was the first in which abbesses and prioresses …
read moreKing Henry VIIIs revolt against the Catholic Church and his closing of monasteries may also have helped postpone the industrial revolution. Archaeologists have found evidence that the …
read moreThe first stone of the chapel of the new Cistercian Monastery of Novy Dvur, in the Czech Republic, will be laid Thursday. As ZENIT reported Dec. 17, the monastery is an offshoot of the …
read moreThe Czech Republic, one of the most secularized countries in the world, is witnessing the birth of a new Cistercian abbey. It is an initiative of the French Cistercian Abbey of Sept-Fons in …
read moreJust two months after the inauguration of a Cistercian monastery near here, the two first postulants have been received, who wish to share the charism of the Cistercian order with the monks. …
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