The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about ...
The Basilica di San Benedetto and the adjoining monastery, which Benedictine monks had inhabited continuously for 16 years, was seriously damaged in the first series of quakes, in late summer.
A spokesman said the 12 Benedictine monks had spent six years "reflecting with sorrow on failures in the care for children". In September, the abbey and school formally separated. The spokesperson ...