Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. The lovely, historic Buckfast Abbey in Buckfastleigh, England, has been ...

Portuguese composer Rebelo’s setting of Panis angelicus is found in a small choir book of music for Holy Week, copied in the late seventeenth century for the chapel of the Dukes of Braganza at Vila ...

Buckfast, the saccharine tonic wine colloquially known as "Buckie," may be passing on. Our alcoholic friend—which Benedictine monks in Buckfast Abbey, England, have been concocting since the 1890s—is ...

South Devon’s Buckfast Abbey marked the centenary since its restored medieval artefact, the statue of Our Lady of Buckfast by placing it by the monks in the new Lady Chapel of the Abbey Church. The ...

In the hills of Devon, in western England, some 30 years ago, “Black Monks”† of the Benedictine order pulled aprons over their rough black robes, began a task which would have stumped most men. They ...

Twelve men will get the chance to live the lives of monks at Buckfast Abbey during the most important week of the religious year. The chosen dozen will stay in the Monastery guest house through Holy ...

It’s hard to imagine how a beverage with 15 percent alcohol by volume and the caffeine content of eight cans of Coke could lead to unsavory behavior, but Buckfast, a fortified wine brewed by ...

Some people will never understand our British delicacies. Perhaps that's why it's so funny when they go on to review them. One American decided to give his thoughts on buckfast – a caffeinated ...