Monasteries were places where monks lived ... The Pope was the head of the Catholic Church and lived in Rome. He set out rules and guidelines that would be put into action by church leaders ...

Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its famous frescoes ... Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose ...

The monastery is home to the Mekhitarist friars, a congregation of Catholic individuals who settled ... Museum officials had labeled the artifact as medieval, which the doctoral student felt ...