Twelve men will get the chance to live the lives of monks at Buckfast Abbey during the most important week of the religious year. The chosen dozen will stay in the Monastery guest house through Holy ...

Monks living in an English abbey have raked in £8.8 million ($11 million) thanks to sales of a tonic wine that has been linked to violent crime in Scotland. Buckfast tonic wine, commonly known as ...

South Devon’s Buckfast Abbey marked the centenary since its restored medieval artefact, the statue of Our Lady of Buckfast by placing it by the monks in the new Lady Chapel of the Abbey Church. The ...

Buckfast Tonic Wine at Buckfast Abbey. (Credit: Skin-ubx/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).) Listen BUCKFASTLEIGH, United Kingdom – With Pope Francis’s two-day visit to Ireland just a week away, ...

In the hills of Devon, in western England, some 30 years ago, “Black Monks”† of the Benedictine order pulled aprons over their rough black robes, began a task which would have stumped most men. They ...