Peter Caddick-Adams. Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell.
Monte Casino is a 516-meter-high rocky hill located some 130 km south of Rome. It was here that Benedictus of Nursia chose to erect his monastery in 529 CE, thereby establishing the Benedictine order. In this monastery Benedict composed the Regula Benedicti (54 0CE), a series of precepts that became the basis for Western monasticism. But monastic tranquility was dis? turbed by a series of ...
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