Built on Polish lands since the 17th century, hermitages, monastic buildings characteristic of the Camaldolese order, are today becoming increasingly available not only to monks. Although their size ...

This next-to-last volume of the famous Trappist monk's personal journals covers the years before and just after his move to a hermitage on the grounds of the Abbey of Gethsemani, near Louisville ...

The monastery at 1012 Monastery Road dates back to 1956, when a group of four monks of the Cistercian (otherwise known as Trappist ... center and has various hermitage cabins.

The Trappist monks aren't in it for the money - they brew only enough to support themselves and the abbey. RateBeer executive director Joe Tucker, who put together the beer ranking based on ...