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The monastery of S. Benedetto also called
Sacro Speco (the cave where S.Benedetto of Norcia, born towards 480, father
of the monasticism Benedictine and patron of Europe. He spent the first
three years in loneliness as a hermit). In the period of twenty years Benedetto
founded thirteen monasteries all situated in the area, the high valley of
Aniene. The monastery in which we are talking about does not form part of
the original thirteen, it rose after the year one thousand or rather when
in 1090 abbot Giovanni suggested the foundation of a community near the
Speco. With the aim to protect and glorify the small cave (where Bendetto
isolated himself from the |
