Thich Nhat Hanh wrote in his book, “Living Buddha, Living Christ,” “If we touch the Holy Spirit, we touch God not as a concept but as a living reality.” In that same spirit, Pope Francis encouraged ...

When people asked me what I was going to do when I got to England, I was hesitant to say I was volunteering at a Buddhist ...

Researchers told CBC News the use of seal skins as a book binder starts around the 12th century with the creation of a French abbey — or monastery — by Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk responsible ...

An international group of scientists from France, the United Kingdom, and Denmark analyzed 32 medieval books using biocodicological ... to mainland Europe. French monks likely did not know the ...

Books with furry covers are indicative of medieval monks’ role in international trade, researchers said. Lévêque, et al (2025) Royal Society Open Science At the end of the ninth century ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more ...