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| Picture No | 10989444 |
| Date | 1918 |
| Description | Chapel in St Benedict's, Subiciao, Italy |
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The Monastery of St Benedict's is located South East of Rome. It enshrines the cave (Sacro Speco) in which St. Benedict lived as a hermit before he founded his first monastic community. It was also the site of the first books printed in Italy, Donatus pro parvulis, Lactantius (1465) and De Civitate Dei (1467).
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| Source | Illustration in Italy by Frank Fox - opposite p36 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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