Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Traces of human settlement in Norcia's area date back to the Neolithic Age.. The town's known history begins with settlement by the Sabines in the 5th century BC. After the conquest by the Romans in the 3rd century BC, it was an ally of ancient Rome in 205 BC, during the Second Punic War, when it was known in Latin as Nursia, but the earliest extant Roman ruins date from around the 1st century.
Benedict of Nursia (Latin: Benedictus Nursiae; Italian: Benedetto da Norcia; 2 March 480 – 21 March 547), often known as Saint Benedict, was an Italian Catholic monk. He is famed in the Catholic Church , the Eastern Orthodox Church , the Lutheran Churches , the Anglican Communion , and Old Catholic Churches .
Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–543); detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico (c. 1400–1455) in the Friary of San Marco Florence. The monastery at Subiaco in Italy, established by Benedict of Nursia c. 529, was the first of the dozen monasteries he founded.
https://nursia.org The Basilica of St. Benedict was partially destroyed by earthquakes in 2016. The Abbey of St. Benedict on the Mountain ( Italian : Abbazia di San Benedetto in Monte ), also known as Norcia Abbey, is a Benedictine community of monks located in southeastern Umbria , just outside the city of Norcia , Italy.
The oldest copy of the Rule of Saint Benedict, from the eighth century (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Hatton 48, fols. 6v–7r). The Rule of Saint Benedict (Latin: Regula Sancti Benedicti) is a book of precepts written in Latin c. 530 by St. Benedict of Nursia (c. AD 480–550) for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.
Students - Albertus Magnus, [24] Benedict of Nursia, [8] Catherine of Alexandria, Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Gemma Galgani, Isidore of Seville, Lawrence, Tatiana of Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Ursula, Wolbodo, St Alfred the Great. Students in various European cities - Nicholas of Myra; Surfers - Christopher
Sanctulus of Nursia [1] [2] [3] (6th century) [4] is a priest mentioned [5] by Pope Gregory the Great in his work called Dialogues (Dialogi de vita et miraculis patrum italicorum). [ 6 ] He lived during the tenure of the aforementioned pope and also passed away around the time of the writing of the same Dialogues as Gregory tells in it.
This page was last edited on 12 September 2006, at 18:20 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.