The existence of a female monastic figure in such a setting challenges long-held beliefs about the role of women in early Christianity. While male monasticism was well-documented, early female ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a significant Christian monastery dating back to roughly ... In this time period, which lasted from the early 4th century to the early 7th century ...

An Early Christian rock monastery in Northeast Bulgaria, which according to some historians andarchaeologists is the oldest of its kind in Europe, has been revived for the first time since the ...

When the Protestants broke with Rome in the 16th century, they considered the Celtic churches to be early examples ... among the Christians of Wales was Illtud, founder of the monastery at ...

His monastery on a promontory pushing out to the western sea was well placed to be a major centre of 'Celtic' Christianity; indeed, in language, it may well have been more Irish than it was Welsh.

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

When the Protestants broke with Rome in the 16th century, they considered the Celtic churches to be early examples ... among the Christians of Wales was Illtud, founder of the monastery at ...