Sister Karen Bland, executive director of the Grand Valley Catholic Outreach, right, speaks with volunteer Jill Mountain on ...

On Saturday afternoon, they quickly helped put together the rooms with cots and blankets, and sorted donated food and clothing in ... last year when the Benedictine nuns relocated to Missouri ...

By the 12th century, nuns belonged primarily to the Benedictine or Cistercian orders ... She had to wear simple black clothing, conduct herself with dignity, and frequently attend church services. The ...

Nuns from Mankato who are part of the School Sisters of Notre Dame religious institute will be moving to Benedictine Living Community in Shakopee, the institute announced.

But behind the locked doors of a city-centre convent, a dozen Benedictine nuns are already chanting prayers in the ... Relics of bones and clothing from Tyburn's Catholic martyrs remain downstairs in ...

For the most part, though, the country has a humid and cool environment, so be sure to pack waterproof clothing and warm sweaters ... Although the house is currently home to Benedictine nuns, visitors ...

in Hempfield. Run by the Benedictine nuns who reside there, the three-day fundraiser features thousands of items: collectibles, housewares, home decor items, paintings, handmade crocheted and ...

Benedictine nuns are pictured in 1900 before the completion ... dark dresses called "habits," clothing from much earlier centuries often topped with starched wimples that squeezed the wearer's ...

The exhibition outlines the strict rules that governed medieval European nuns and anchoresses, from the types of pets they could keep to the clothing ... century German Benedictine abbess and ...

Lancaster had founded the religious order, known as Benedictine Sisters of Mary ... the chapel walls to honor her role there, her fellow nuns were shocked to discover that she had changed very ...