See also:

• MONTE

MONTE CASSINO  , an isolated See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill overhanging the See also:

• TOWN

town of Cassinum, about midway between See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome and See also:

• NAPLES
• NAPLES (Ital. Napoli, and Lat. Neapolis)
• NAPLES, KINGDOM OF

Naples . Hither St See also:

• BENEDICT (BENEDICTUS)
• BENEDICT, SIR JULIUS (1804-1885)

Benedict migrated from See also:

• SUBIACO (anc. Sublaqueum)

Subiaco in the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early years of the 6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and established the monastery that became the See also:

• METROPOLIS (Gr. piir17Pi mother, srGXis, city)

metropolis of Western monachism . About 580—590 it was sacked by the See also:

• LOMBARDS, or LANGOBARDI

Lombards, and the monks fled to Rome, where they were established at the Lateran See also:

• BASILICA

basilica . The monastery was rebuilt in 720, again destroyed by the See also:

• SARACENS

Saracens in 884, and restored seventy years later . It reached its highest point of prosperity and See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence from 1059 to 1105, under See also:

• DESIDERIUS

Desiderius (who became See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope See also:

• VICTOR
• VICTOR, GAIUS JULIUS (4th cent. A.D.)
• VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Victor III. in ro87) and Oderisius . The See also:

• ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
• ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
• ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
• ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
• ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)

abbot became overlord of an extensive territory and See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of several dioceses: now, though not a bishop, he is See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary of seven dioceses . At the See also:

• DISSOLUTION (from Lat. dissolvere, to break up into parts)

dissolution of monasteries in 1866 See also:

• MONTE

Monte Cassino was spared, owing mainly to a remonstrance by See also:

• ENGLISH

English well-wishers of See also:

• UNITED

United See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy . The monastery became a See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument and the monks were recognized as custodians . There is a large secondary school with 250 boys, and See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich archives . See L . Tosti, Storia della badia di M.C . (1841; 2nd ed., 1888); Wetzer u .

Welte, Kirchenlexicon (2nd ed.) and See also:

• HERZOG, HANS (1819–1894)
• HERZOG, JOHANN JAKOB (1805-1882)

Herzog, Realencyklopadie (3rd ed.) . (E . C .