Monte Soratte monasteries

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The Benedictine - monasteries on Mount Soratte north of Rome emerged later than the 8th century and were - as well as Santa Maria in Farfa and San Salvatore in Rieti  closely with the - Carolingian connected. On the one hand they were under the protection of the ruling house, on the other hand they were given goods and rights by him, and thirdly they served the Carolingians both as political bases near the Pope and as accommodation during their visits to Rome. The most famous of these monasteries are Sant'Andrea, San Silvestro and San Stefano.

Sant'Andrea

Sant'Andrea in flumine

Sant'Andrea in flumine stood near Ponzano Romano . Compared to the other monasteries, Sant'Andrea developed a greater significance in the 9th century and then also managed to become a monastery directly under the Empire. At the end of the 9th or beginning of the 10th century, Sant'Andrea was destroyed by the Saracens , but then rebuilt in 946 by Alberic II , who ruled Rome and the papacy as princeps , and brought it to a regular monastic life. Nevertheless, the heyday of the abbey was over, but it took more than 300 years until Pope Honorius IV placed it under the bishop of Ancona in 1285. In 1408 Sant'Andrea, like San Silvestro von Rieti, was merged with the Abbey of San Paolo fuori le Mura , and in 1548 it was finally subordinated to the Abbey of Tre Fontane in Rome.

Parts of the surrounding wall of the monastery have been preserved, the church with frescoes from the 12th and 15th centuries and the abbots' palace, which was repaired by the Farnese .

The best-known personality of the monastery was the historian Benedikt von Sant'Andrea, who wrote a Chronicon around 968 , which covers the time from the birth of Christ to the year 965, in which he relates the entire history of his monastery in an "almost terrible Latin" , Classics "defaced" and also makes chronological errors. The only value of this chronicle lies in the fact that this work is the only source from Rome and its surroundings in the 10th century.

San Silvestro

According to legend, a church was built on the summit of Monte Soratte by Pope Silvester I († 335) when he was fleeing from persecution by Constantine the Great . The monastery of San Silvestro, on the other hand, was founded by Karlmann - also on the mountain top - after he retired from power in 747. However, he soon left the monastery to move to Montecassino , as he felt too often disturbed by Frankish pilgrims in San Silvestro.

In 1612 San Silvestro became an abbey of the Cistercian Order and in 1802 it was abolished. In 1835 a new monastery was founded by the Trinitarian Order below the summit and it still exists today. In the church of San Silvestro sul Soratte at the top there are frescoes from the 14th and 15th centuries and an altar that still has fragments of sculptures from the time the monastery was founded.

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