The odds are that your newly discovered wonder is or was a church founded by the Catholic monks of the mediaeval Cistercian Order, and that it has been inspiring people to ask that same question for ...

This volume presents the composite character of the Cistercian Order in its unity and diversity, detailing the white monks' history from the Middle Ages to the present day. It charts the geographical ...

The Cistercians, who are a stricter offshoot of the Benedictine Order, have been living on Caldey Island for over 1,000 years. The island promotes itself as a haven of peace and is described on ...

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 ...

Father Jan Rossey, who last year became the Abbot of Caldey Abbey, which sits on an island off the coast of Pembrokeshire in west Wales and is home to Cistercian Order monks, admitted that “it ...