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The MONTECASSINO Monastery Historical outline
The MONTECASSINO Monastery, was founded by St. Benedict about 529 of the Christian Era on the remnants of a preexisting Roman fortification of the municipium Casinum. The heathen cult was still practised on this mountain site in the temple of Apollo and in a nearby holy grove t...[continua (continue)] [ Cassino, Monuments ] |
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