Amidst the decline of Catholicism in France, the reconstruction of the Abbey of St. Wandrille emerges as a powerful sign of ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

This is the dilemma for the famed abbey monastery on an islet off the Normandy coast that is France’s most visited tourist destination outside of Paris and a Unesco World Heritage site since 1979.