The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about ...

The restoration will ensure that it is a Benedictine home for future generations. “The monastery has existed for nearly 14 centuries, though with interruptions,” Dom Jean-Charles Nault ...

The Basilica di San Benedetto and the adjoining monastery, which Benedictine monks had inhabited continuously for 16 years, was seriously damaged in the first series of quakes, in late summer.