A fire on Sunday tore through the ancient monastery of Mont-Dieu, destroying the centuries-old French heritage site's main building, the local mayor and firefighters told AFP. Anne Fraipont, mayor of ...

DIJON, France (AFP) — A French monastery in the heart of Burgundy launched an emergency online sale Friday to get rid of thousands of its prized artisanal cheeses, which are languishing in its cellars ...

The Cîteaux Abbey sells its raw-milk soft cheeses to restaurants and visitors, but the pandemic left the monks with about 3 tons to sell. They are working with an Internet startup to get it sold. Good ...

The French monastery where Vincent Van Gogh made many of his masterpieces when he warded for psychiatric treatment is still operating—and now treats its exclusively female clients with art therapy.

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

The local mayor compared the ancient monastery of Mont-Dieu to Notre-Dame in Paris Mont-Dieu's Carthusian monastery traces its origins back to 1130 No works of art were within the monastery at the ...

A French monastery in the heart of Burgundy launched an emergency online sale Friday to get rid of thousands of its prized artisanal cheeses, which are languishing in its cellars as Covid-19 keeps ...

A fire on Sunday tore through the ancient monastery of Mont-Dieu, destroying the centuries-old French heritage site's main building, the local mayor and firefighters told AFP.