CULLMAN, Alabama - St. Bernard Abbey has its largest class of postulants to enter the monastery in more than 50 years. On June 24, six men entered as postulants, the first stage of monastic formation, ...

It was exactly a millennium ago that the first stone of the abbey church of Mont Saint-Michel, in French Normandy, was laid. The monument that poet Victor Hugo called the “Khéops of the West” has ...

CULLMAN, Alabama - The 30th Annual Bloomin’ Festival Arts and Crafts Fair will be held April 4-5 at St. Bernard Abbey and Prep School in Cullman. There will be a 5K/10K Run through the wooded trails ...

Mar. 13—Sacred art and history run deep through the grounds of St. Bernard Abbey. They also hang high. The monks who live, pray and work in this community are serious about the responsibility they ...

Exactly 1,000 years ago this month, construction started on a magnificent island building off the coast of France that, as it rose improbably from the choppy waters of the Atlantic Ocean, would become ...

The island abbey of Mont St-Michel, one of the top pilgrimage sites of Christendom through the ages, floats like a mirage on the horizon, just off the Norman coast of France. For more than a thousand ...

I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mudflat in the vast Bay of Mont St-Michel. Splashing across black sand and through little puddles, I head for a dramatic ...