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5/29/2004 3:33:12 AM
ST. BENEDICT, founder of Montecassino and great legislator of Western monasticism, was born to a patrician family in Norcia (Perugia) in or about 480 A.D.
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5/29/2004 3:35:04 AM
A statue of St. Scolastica that was done after the W.W.II devastation. It is a copy of the original which was sculpted by C. Campi in 1736. It bears an inscription which reads: "Veni clumba mea, veni, coronaberis" or "Come my dove, come, you will be crowned"
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6/4/2004 2:45:22 PM
The Basilica Cathedral was rebuilt according to the architectural and decoration pattern of the 17th and 18th century design attributed to C. Fansago, architect and sculptor, who certainly worked at the reasset of the Presbytery in 1627-1628 and who designed the High Altar in 1645. Much of the pre-existing marble has been reutilized for repaving the Cathedral and to inlay its walls.
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5/29/2004 3:46:36 AM
We enter a second one bearing the name of Bramante, because its peaceful spaciousness reflects the style of this famous Renaissance Architect. It was built in 1595 and measured 40 m in length and 30 m in width including the flight of steps linking it up to the anti-portico of the upper Cloister.
The octagonal well in the center of this cloister is surrounded by Corinthian columns supporting an elegant trabeation, this well is perfectly equidistant from the entrance Cloister and from the Monumental Archive Cloister.
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