Monte Cassino

[ mawn-te kahs-see-naw ]

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noun

a monastery at Cassino, Italy: founded a.d. c530 by St. Benedict and destroyed by Allied bombings in 1944.

Monte Cassino

/ ˈmonte kasˈsiːno; ˈmɒntɪ kəˈsiːnəʊ /

a hill above Cassino in central Italy: site of intense battle during World War II: site of Benedictine monastery (530 ad ), destroyed by Allied bombing in 1944, later restored

Some one among the monks of Monte Cassino saw a dove hovering over his head as he said mass.

Benedict was born in 480, and he died at Monte Cassino in 543.

The school was originally a monastic school under the influence of the Benedictine monks from Monte Cassino not far away.

In the eleventh century one of his bones was sent from France to Monte Cassino, and there received with great enthusiasm.

In the second, he converts the inhabitants of Monte Cassino from their worship of Apollo.

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