All Episodes of Monasteries of Europe
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Season 1
NaN/100 votesLoading...At the Water's Edge
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/3/2018
Monks and sisters built impressive buildings at the water's edge : Mont-Saint-Michel (France) animated by the Fraternities of Jerusalem or the monastery of the Benedictines on Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria (Germany)…
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NaN/100 votesLoading...From the Back of the World
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/4/2018
Sisters and brothers often sought to isolate themselves until they reached the end of the world. Saint Gregory of Tatev in Armenia hides at the top of an inaccessible mountain. It is animated by a single monk, an exception!
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Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/5/2018
Monasteries that are both timeless and in our time. In Bavaria, a monastery that animates the economic and cultural life of the region. In Georgia, a monastery in a troglodyte site.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Pilgrimages
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/6/2018
St. Nino in Georgia is a monastery animated by sisters who have restored this ravaged site by the communists. The source discovered by Saint Nino in the 4th century according to tradition attracts pilgrims again. Santiago de Compostela is the destination of the biggest pilgrimage in Europe.
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Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/7/2018
Mont Sainte Odile has artistic treasures including the astonishing mosaic of the Gentile and Bordet artists celebrating the Victory of the Allies against Nazism. The Benedictine monastery of Göttweig is known for its library, its thirty-two thousand engravings including Dürer and Michelangelo and these moving statuettes of the Madonna with foeutus.
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