San Pietro di Paliano monastery

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San Pietro di Paliano monastery
location ItalyItaly Italy
Coordinates: 41 ° 48 '39 "  N , 13 ° 2' 49"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 48 '39 "  N , 13 ° 2' 49"  E
founding year 13th Century
Cistercian since around 1340
Year of dissolution /
annulment
1379
Year of repopulation 1585 ( Capuchin )

The Monastery of San Pietro di Paliano (or San Pietro a Paliano) is a former Cistercian monastery in Lazio , Italy .

location

The monastery was about 1 km from the Colonna community (later duchy) Paliano in today's province of Frosinone , above the community cemetery, around 17 km east of Palestrina .

history

Founded as a nunnery by Cardinal Giacomo de Pecoaria, Bishop of Palestrina and former abbot of Tre Fontane monastery in the first half of the 13th century, it was placed under the visitation of the abbot of Casamari monastery in 1243 . Around 1340 it was converted into a monastery, but no more detailed information has come down to it. As early as 1379 the monastery fell into the hands of the suburbicarian bishops of Palestrina . In 1585 the Capuchins took over the monastery.

Plant and buildings

The church and monastery, rebuilt by the Capuchins, have been preserved.

literature

  • Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Le abazie cistercensi d'Italia. o. O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, pp. 179-180

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