Abbazia di Sant'Antimo

Italy / Toscana / Montalcino /
 building, church, christianity, monastery, Roman Catholic church

St. Antimo's Abbey.The origins of the abbey date to a small oratory built here, on the location of a former Roman villa, in 352 at the death of Anthimus. In 715 it was cared by the diocese of Chiusi.Later it was a Benedictine Abbey.
Since 1992, it is occupied by the 'Premonstratensian Canons Regular',(or Norbertines)a Catholic community, mostly come from France.

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Abbazia di Sant'Antimo
I - 53020
Castelnuovo dell'Abate (SI)
abbazia@antimo.it
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www.antimo.it/le-ore-della-preghiera/preghiere/
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Coordinates:   42°59'58"N   11°30'54"E
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