Monte Cassino

[ mawn-te kahs-see-naw ]

/ ˈmɔn tɛ kɑsˈsi nɔ /

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noun

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

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How to use Monte Cassino in a sentence

Some one among the monks of Monte Cassino saw a dove hovering over his head as he said mass.
The Makers of Modern Rome|Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Benedict was born in 480, and he died at Monte Cassino in 543.
Anglo-Saxon Literature|John Earle
The school was originally a monastic school under the influence of the Benedictine monks from Monte Cassino not far away.
Education: How Old The New|James J. Walsh
In the eleventh century one of his bones was sent from France to Monte Cassino, and there received with great enthusiasm.
Curiosities of Christian History|Croake James

In the second, he converts the inhabitants of Monte Cassino from their worship of Apollo.
The Story of Siena and San Gimignano|Edmund G. Gardner

British Dictionary definitions for Monte Cassino

Monte Cassino

/ (ˈmɒntɪ kəˈsiːnəʊ, Italian ˈmonte kasˈsiːno) /

noun

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

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