Sublacum
Monastery · no year is recorded · Subiaco
Benedict's first foundation, in the valley forty miles from Rome where he had lived three years in a cave unknown to all but one monk. As his name spread he built twelve abbeys there and set twelve monks over each, and he left it only when a neighbouring priest drove him out.
No year is recorded anywhere. The era is fixed by Benedict of Nursia (547), whom the source names — that is not a founding date.
Who
- Benedict of Nursia Founder · Gregory: ‘by Christ’s assistance he built there twelve Abbeys; over which he appointed governors, and in each of them placed twelve monks’. No patron, donor or bishop is named, and no year.
Where
- Subiaco the site; this page is the community that sat on it
Other monasteries
- Monte Cassino about 529 (Gardner, 1911 — not Gregory) · Abbey of Monte Cassino
- 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
- The monastery of St Peter and St Paul 674, the second indiction and the fourth year of King Egfrid · Monkwearmouth-Jarrow 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
After Dialogues (book 2: the life of Benedict) · Dialogues II.1 and II.3 (Gardner 1911).