- A monastery is a called religious community where the people (monks) dedicate their whole lives for God.
- Monks are men who dedicated themselves to a religious order and to life ina monastery.
- They lived very strict simple slives and spent their days praying and working.
- They prayed six to eight times every day.
- Farm work included milking, harvesting and grinding corn.
- The monks were self-sufficient and produced all the food they needed.
- Monastries became centre of learning and were famous all around the world for teaching and their poetry, literature, art and the gospel.