Sun, Sep 26, 2010
There's a mountain in Toscany where San Francesco got the gift of the stigmata.
Sun, Oct 3, 2010
Today this monastery is the symbol of Catalunya and one of the most touristic monasteries of the world. We are up to a magic mountain, the Montserrat, where the dark-faced Madonna appeared and maybe the Holy Grail was hidden.
Sun, Oct 10, 2010
The real story of Paolo Della Croce, the saint who set up the Passionist order.
Sun, Oct 17, 2010
The real story of Mekhitar, the Armenian hero who saved his people's identity defending their culture in the name of God.
Sun, Nov 21, 2010
At Poblet and Vallbona de les monges, two amazing monasteries in Catalunya, we try to understand the secrets of seclusion.
Sun, Nov 28, 2010
In the harmony of the spaces of Praglia abbey, the light and the dark run side by side all along, even during the second world war when the monks used to hide here fugitives.
Sun, Dec 5, 2010
The real story of a young man who left his rich life to go hide for 3 years into a cave. His name was Benedetto da Norcia, Saint Benedict.
Sun, Dec 12, 2010
Up the mountain where Saint Bernard defeated the devil, in the silent and snowy Grand Staint Bernard Hospice, three agostinian monks truly live between heaven and earth.
Wed, Feb 9, 2011
The Sacra di San Michele, also known as Saint Michael's abbey, is a fabulous religious complex on Mount Pirchiriano, half an hour away from Turin, in Italy. Most people think that this place was built directly by the angels.
Wed, Feb 16, 2011
Among beer, history and God, there's a benedictine monastery in Bavaria. The Weltenburg abbey, founded in about 620, offers the wonderful spirituality of a baroque church, but also the alcoholic fun of one of the best beers in Germany.
Wed, Feb 23, 2011
Fraueninsel, the women's island, is a fabulous slice of earth laid on the calm lake water of Chiemsee, in Bavaria. Once in here the nuns wore a crown.
Wed, Mar 2, 2011
Roussanou and Varlaam monasteries are two of the most beautiful sacred places in the world. They're wrapped into the Meteora complex, where people who barely believe in God can really touch the sky.
Wed, Mar 9, 2011
An hour drive from Rome, there's a place in which you can see the very meaning of human life by reading every page of Farfa Abbey's history. Silent, genuine and quiet nowadays, once it was powerful and rich as only the kingdoms could be.
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
The Abbey of San Nilo in Grottaferrata, half an hour from Rome and half an instant from the only truth we can't ever deny: communication and culture are much better than war.
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Wed, Mar 23, 2011
Gubbio is a picturesque Italian town that makes you feel as if you were living in the Middle Ages. Its heroic Saint, Ubald of Gubbio, a medieval bishop who was probably an exorcist too, is celebrated every year with a crazy race.
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
Francis of Assisi climbed up this mountain to live deeply his fears, his doubts and his truth, in other words his saintliness. In one of the dark caves of Eremo delle carceri, he lived as a hermit every day for several months.