Built between 1139 and 1147 by Abbot Guillaume thanks to the generosity of Ebraud, Bishop of Norwich, the Abbey of Fontenay was consecrated by Pope Eugene III, a Cistercian and former disciple of St ...

In contrast, Benedictines often maintained older Romanesque churches, and Franciscans and Dominicans tended to build smaller churches according to local styles. In mediaeval Poland, these particular ...

This Cistercian abbey in Catalonia is one of the largest in Spain ... around which stand the remains of the hospital for the poor, the Romanesque chapel of Santa Caterina and the treasury. The third ...

This clock is a digital representation of an ancient numeral system used by 13th century Cistercian monks before the Indo-Arabic system that we know and love today took over. It’s a compact ...

The two-week dig included local school and community groups in the search for remnants of the Cistercian monastery known as Erenagh Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a 12th ...