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ARLINGTON — A documentary about life in the Carthusian monastery on Mount Equinox, made by a team of Rutland filmmakers, to be screened at the visitors center outside the monastery, gives the outside ...

When he was only 13, Thomas Verner Moore knew what he wanted to be—a hermit. The son of a Louisville insurance man, young Tom Moore had had his imagination fired by a book on the so-called Desert ...

On top of Mount Equinox, 17 monks from all over the world live quietly, dedicating their lives to silence, solitude and contemplation. The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration, America s only ...

The world-renowned “elixir of life” has been around for centuries, but its secret recipe — which has nearly disappeared several times — has never been revealed by the monks who made it famous.

WASHINGTON, DC OCTOBER 25: Chartreuse is a liqueur made by the Carthusian Monks since 1737 according to the instructions set out in a manuscript given to them by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605.

For four months in the spring of 2014, an American priest lived with and embraced the austere lifestyle of the Carthusian monks at Serra San Bruno in Italy’s Calabria region. While there, he wrote a ...