Monte Cassino
Monastery · about 529 (Gardner, 1911 — not Gregory) · Abbey of Monte Cassino
Benedict came up from Subiaco to the mountain above Casinum, broke the idol of Apollo, overthrew its altar, burnt the groves, and built two oratories in their place — St Martin in the temple itself and St John where the altar had stood. It is the house he was buried in and the house the Rule went out from.
The year is a modern editor’s, not the ancient author’s.
Who
- Benedict of Nursia Founder · Gregory, in the active voice: coming thither he ‘beat in pieces the idol, overthrew the altar, set fire on the woods, and in the temple of Apollo, he built the oratory of St. Martin’. And Benedict in his own mouth over its coming ruin: ‘All this Abbey which I have built’. No years anywhere.
Where
- Abbey of Monte Cassino the site; this page is the community that sat on it
Other monastery houses
- Clonmacnoise 547 · Clonmacnoise
- Iona 565 · Iona
- Lindisfarne 635 (the edition’s margin; Bede does not date it) · Lindisfarne
- Streaneshalch two years after Bede’s own 655 · Whitby Abbey
- Bercingum before 674, the edition’s date for Earconwald’s consecration · Barking Abbey
- Kellia no year is recorded · Kellia
- The Monastery of the Caves no year is recorded · Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- Nitria no year is recorded · Nitria
- Sublacum no year is recorded · Subiaco
After Dialogues (book 2: the life of Benedict) · Gardner's introduction pp. xx–xxi and his note to II.8 (1911 ed.).