Prayer Rope used in Orthodox Christianty

This prayer rope was made at The Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Crawley Down, West Sussex. It is an Anglican contemplative ...
Publishers Weekly

The Last Divine Office: Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries

In this rich study, British historian Moorhouse (Great Harry's Navy) portrays the destruction of England's 650 Catholic monasteries and nunneries in the 1530s as a brazen smash-and-grab by a ...
Los Angeles Times

Contemplating a ruined monastery’s next life

MONTECITO, CALIF. — Brother Nicholas Radelmiller tolled the bell amid the ruins of the Mt. Calvary Monastery, but no worshipers were there to hear it. Down the mountainside, workers revved up their ...