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In the pantheon of Catholic religious orders—Carmelites, Claretians, Camoldolese, Cistercians, Capuchin and Conventual Franciscans, Clunaics, Canons Regular, Clerics Regular—the Carthusians stand out ...

The world-renowned “elixir of life” has been around for centuries, but its secret recipe — which has nearly disappeared several times — has never been revealed by the monks who made it famous.

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study provides a historical overview of Kinalehin Priory, the sole foundation of the Carthusian order in Ireland, who followed an austere ...

When he was only 13, Thomas Verner Moore knew what he wanted to be—a hermit. The son of a Louisville insurance man, young Tom Moore had had his imagination fired by a book on the so-called Desert ...

The monks' silence is interrupted only by the bells (photo: Philip Groening) An unlikely film has been filling cinemas in Germany in recent weeks: a three-hour documentary with hardly a single spoken ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Anthony Bancy: Intrigue swirls around the liquor known as Chartreuse, sometimes ...

Chartreuse -- a color better known these days as "Brat Green" -- gets its name not from a herb or a flower as one might expect, but from an alcoholic beverage. More accurately, chartreuse gets its ...

In our noisy and technologically correct secular society, mystery and silence are as absent as they are secretly craved. Two of the most austere Western monastic orders to distill this countercultural ...