A fire on Sunday tore through the ancient monastery of Mont-Dieu, destroying the centuries-old French heritage site's main building, the local mayor and firefighters told AFP.

The local mayor compared the ancient monastery of Mont-Dieu to Notre-Dame in Paris Mont-Dieu's Carthusian monastery traces its origins back to 1130 No works of art were within the monastery at the ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

DIJON, France (AFP) — A French monastery in the heart of Burgundy launched an emergency online sale Friday to get rid of thousands of its prized artisanal cheeses, which are languishing in its cellars ...

The French monastery where Vincent Van Gogh made many of his masterpieces when he warded for psychiatric treatment is still operating—and now treats its exclusively female clients with art therapy.

A fire on Sunday tore through the ancient monastery of Mont-Dieu, destroying the centuries-old French heritage site's main building, the local mayor and firefighters told AFP. Anne Fraipont, mayor of ...

Earlier in the year, Paris-based Michel Blazy installed a series of foam sculptures inside the Cistercian monastery in France. The curious installation is housed inside the 13th-century structure and ...