Monks are usually members of cloistered communities.

The series on 'España Mística' (Mystical Spain) focuses in cloistered religious communities and popular devotions such as pilgrimages and processions.

They conjure a real sense of the grand home of a cloistered religious and academic community of the past.

One of the effects was reinforcing the separation of cloistered communities.

At its height,the monastery housed approximately 450 people (about a third of them nuns and the rest servants) in a cloistered community.

He runs a personal fief that is about loyalty and family and the cloistered community that fiercely protects its character and way of life.

When women entered cloistered communities by the dozens, they had companionship as they adjusted.

We're a cloistered community.

They started off, after all, around A.D. 900, as a cloistered community thrilled to find liberty and make progress and take pleasure amid the waters.

Religious associations have the exclusive right to establish religious educational institutions, invite foreigners to work with religious groups, and organize cloistered and monastic communities.