Saint Benedict, founder of Western monasticism, was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480 ... settled in Campagna and on Mount Cassino he founded the Monte Cassino monastery, which for a ...

A dramatic example of the commitment to such a life is evident in the relatively new Benedictine community in Norcia, Italy ... Birra Nursia, not after Benedict or another saint but after the ...

The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about ...

In March, I drove with my family up from Rome into the mountains of southeastern Umbria, to reach the town of Norcia and the monastery of St. Benedict ... even in Catholic Italy, has been ...