Monastery of Fonte Avellana


Monastery Fonte Avellana.

The monastery of Fonte Avellana (in Italian: Monastero di Fonte Avellana), dedicated to the Holy Cross, is an Italian Catholic monastery located on the slopes of Mt Catria, in the commune of Serra Sant'Abbondio, province of Pesaro and Urbino, Marche region.

Built at the end of the first Christian millennium, the abbey in 1325, the monastery church was elevated to a minor basilica on March 31, 1982 by Pope John Paul II, who visited it to conclude the millennial celebrations. >

He inspired Dante Alighieri, who probably was his guest, and who mentioned the Monastery in the corner of Paradise in his Divine Comedy. Here it is said that Guido de Arezzo, the inventor of the Tetragrammaton, died in the year 1050.

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