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33 - Eastern Influence on Western Monasticism, 850–1050

from Part II - The Carolingians to the Eleventh Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

By
John Howe
Edited by
Alison I. Beach  and
Isabelle Cochelin
Alison I. Beach
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Isabelle Cochelin
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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In 980, Abbot Nilus of Rossano, who had lived nearly forty years of ascetic life in Greek southern Italy, prophesied new Muslim attacks and moved north. At Capua he was received “as if he were an apostle.” He visited Montecassino, invited by its refounder, Abbot Aligernus, and there all the monks, priests, and deacons of the community, arrayed in their festal robes, honored him with candles and incense “as if he were the great Anthony come from Alexandria or better the great Benedict … risen from the dead.” Nilus was given a monastery at Valleluce for himself and his sixty Greek-rite monks. On one occasion they celebrated their offices at Montecassino, impressing the audience with their liturgical good order as well as with a long Greek hymn that Nilus had written in praise of Benedict. About fifteen years later, Nilus moved even further north, ultimately founding the monastery of Grottaferrata near Rome, where he died in 1004.

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West , pp. 631 - 646
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Print publication year: 2020

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