Monte Cassino

Monte Cassino
/mawn"te kahs see"naw/
a monastery at Cassino, Italy: founded A.D. c530 by St. Benedict and destroyed by Allied bombings in 1944.

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Principal monastery of the Benedictine order, located in Latium, central Italy.

It was founded с 529 by St. Benedict of Nursia and reached its peak under Desiderius (later Pope Victor III), who was abbot 1058–87. Its buildings were destroyed by the Lombards (с 581), the Arabs (883), an earthquake (1349), and World War II bombardment (1944), but were rebuilt each time. It was reconsecrated in 1964.

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