Pluscarden Abbey has always intrigued me. Just 15 minutes from my home in Elgin, it is Britain’s only medieval monastery ...

The community traces its origins to the English Benedictine convent founded in Ypres, Belgium, in 1665 (reassigned as an ...

The Sword of St. Michael, a line of sacred sites stretches mysteriously in perfect alignment from Ireland through Greece to the Holy Land.

I went to Pluscarden Abbey, in Moray, to experience what a spiritual retreat is like at Britain's only functioning medieval monastery.

Vlad III Dracula, the brutal warlord and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire, has long held a reputation as ...

When we learn music today, one of the first things we encounter is the familiar set of syllables used to name the notes of the scale: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. To many people, this seems ...

September, Isla Johnston, the 18-year-old star of Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated film based on the life of Joan of Arc, is ...

There is a timeless magic that clings to a medieval castle. It’s a feeling you get when you stand beneath massive stone walls ...

Monasticamp was designed, in part, to give students exposure to an entire monastic day, praying together the distinct periods ...

Mild weather, crisp air, and fewer crowds make October and November perfect months for discovering Armenia at its most ...

The Belial stool by Studio S II, in steel and leather, draws inspiration from the Savonarola chair, an X-frame design popular in medieval Italy. “Gothic arches, sharp spikes and oxblood leather ...