Raised without faith, Stephen Williams embraced Zen Buddhism before a surprising encounter led him to Catholicism and Opus ...

Charming hamlets such as S aint Pierre de Chartreuse are starting points for sunny summer hikes to refreshing waterfalls and ...

The French liqueur Chartreuse has become a cult favourite in the bartending community in recent years. That popularity, plus ...

As someone who spent five years working at Franciscan University’s Study Abroad program in Gaming, Austria — a former Carthusian monastery founded in 1330 — I have come to appreciate the ...

That story is steeped in mystery, but the cliff notes version says it all started when the Catholic monks of the Carthusian order in France received a manuscript from a Marshall of France in 1605.

The monks living in them follow regimens as regular, definite and controlled as could ever be kept up for laboratory specimens. The Cistercians never eat meat or fish; the Carthusians eat no meat ...

The Carthusian rosary (Dominic the Carthusian of Trier ... The short form of the "tenner" was usually reserved for men; it was the typical tallying device for monks as late as the eighteenth century.

MARONITE. The Maronite rite traces its origins to the work of St. Maron in the 4th century who founded a monastery east of Antioch. Later monks moved to the mountains in what is today Lebanon.

In 1904 the French government seized their property, forced out the Carthusians and since then have been making the liqueur—but it is merely a poor imitation of the brew prepared by the monks.