Monte Cassino

[ mawn-te kahs-see-naw ]

noun

1. a monastery at Cassino, Italy: founded a.d. c530 by St. Benedict and destroyed by Allied bombings in 1944.

Monte Cassino

/ ˈmonte kasˈsiːno; ˈmɒntɪ kəˈsiːnəʊ /

noun

1. a hill above Cassino in central Italy: site of intense battle during World War II: site of Benedictine monastery (530 ad ), destroyed by Allied bombing in 1944, later restored

Example Sentences

Some one among the monks of Monte Cassino saw a dove hovering over his head as he said mass.

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Benedict was born in 480, and he died at Monte Cassino in 543.

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The school was originally a monastic school under the influence of the Benedictine monks from Monte Cassino not far away.

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In the eleventh century one of his bones was sent from France to Monte Cassino, and there received with great enthusiasm.

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In the second, he converts the inhabitants of Monte Cassino from their worship of Apollo.

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