st benedict

October 5, 2017
Saint Placidus is venerated, together with Saint Maurus, on 5 October.

March 21, 2015
St. Benedict of Norcia died on 21 March.

August 5, 2014
The Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Sodoma , was documented at work in the cloister of Monte Oliveto Maggiore on this day in 1505.

February 20, 2014
institutefinearts : Before and after destruction lantern slides of the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino taken by the Monument’s Men.

August 5, 2013
The Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Sodoma , was documented at work in the cloister of Monte Oliveto Maggiore on 5 August 1505.