WHEELING, W.Va. — The Mount Carmel Monastery in Wheeling is getting a major facelift that's expected to bring many out-of-towners into the Friendly City. The monastery has been in Wheeling for more ...

Nestled in the farmland of Port Tobacco, Maryland, stands the oldest Carmelite monastery in America. Founded in 1790, the Mount Carmel Monastery was the first Catholic convent for religious women in ...

Mount Carmel Monastery of Port Tobacco is the home of a group of cloistered Discalced Carmelite nuns whose forbears landed in Maryland from Belgium in the late 1700s.The monastery’s founding nuns — ...

Pilgrimages were held at the site, tents set up for lunch. In 1968, Pilgrimage Hall was built, always with the goal in mind that the nuns would return to the site. In 1973, the monastery was placed on ...

Raindrops stayed away for most of the Mount Carmel May Festival on Saturday. The festival at Mount Carmel Monastery near La Plata was a benefit to help the Carmelite nuns raise funds to build a new ...

CLARK - The monk works in solitude. Silent, steady. The beans are poured, the roaster lit, the churning begins. His surroundings are a treat for the senses _ the calming shuffle of roasting beans, ...

CLARK - The monk works in solitude. Silent, steady. The beans are poured, the roaster is lit, the churning begins. His surroundings are a treat for the senses - the calming shuffle of roasting beans, ...