There, they will form a new community to be known as Our Lady of Silence. Cistercian monks first came to Ireland in 1142, at the invitation of St Malachy of Armagh, making their initial foundation ...
Melleray was founded in 1832 by a group of 64 Irish Cistercian monks, who were forced to leave their monastery at Melleray in Brittany when the French revolution of 1830 led to the introduction of ...
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run by the Cistercian monks in Waterford. Mount Melleray Abbey, near Cappoquin, will close on Saturday, almost two centuries after it was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to ...
The island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, is the symbolic centre of Scottish Christianity. Through 1400 years of history its fortunes have fluctuated, from its heights as one of the greatest ...
“The hope is they will come back here. All the monks want to come back. There is more than a chance that this will happen.” Mount Melleray staff member Christina O’Flynn’s tone was tinged ...
The monks from all three communities agreed to ... decisions with the aim of ensuring a future for Cistercian life in Ireland. "We have been confronted with these difficult decisions as we address ...
According to 'How the Celts Saved Briton' Irish monks formed Scotland as we know it. Does the existence of Scotland as a nation owe more to Christianity than armed resistence to invaders?
Last November, the order decided to merge three abbeys, Mount Melleray, Mellifont in Louth and Mount St Joseph in Tipperary, in an effort to ensure the monks have a future in Ireland. Since the ...
The abbey in Co Waterford was home to men who sought solitude and the simple life while dedicating themselves to God Liam Collins visits Mount Melleray for the last time Last weekend as we turned ...
Huddersfield's Father John Gribben is planning to take part in 60m, 200m, and 400m sprints this February to help impoverished ...
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