Its foundress, Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation currently resides at the cloistered monastery with her group of religious sisters.

The Carmelite nuns live in cloistered (enclosed) monasteries and follow a completely contemplative life.

As a result, they opted to change from living in cloistered monasteries to small communities in socially marginal communities.

The dispute here, experts say, is part of a broader clash between strict traditionalists and reformers in cloistered Carmelite monasteries throughout the world.

NOT everyone seeking transcendent peace and spiritual growth can live a life of reflection in a cloistered monastery.

And I don't think it's a cloistered monastery in the way you're thinkingùaccording to the sign we passed on the way up, they have a gift shop.

In the science-fiction novel Anathem by Neal Stephenson (2008) changes are rung in a cloistered monastery for mathematicians to signal different ceremonies.

Many cloistered monasteries and convents now sell their wares through mail-order catalogs and on the Internet.

It was built in 1439 on the site of an ancient hermitage, as part of a cloistered monastery of the Hieronymites that existed here from the 15th-16th century.

This is a cloistered monastery and the only missives in and out go through me or some other appointed courier with the permission of the clerics.