The monastery of Montecassino was founded around the year 529 by s. Benedetto da Norcia, who from Subiaco had arrived in the ancient Castrum Casinum (today Cassino, Frosinone). He soon undertook an evangelizing activity in the area surrounding the Mount, on the top of which, using the pre-existing acropolis, he had established his monastery, centralized and structured in a unitary way, unlike the Sublacian monastic organisation, characterized by opposed by a plurality of small monasteries.
Mother Berchams- Clara Jane (Mother Berchams) McLaughlin (1856-1931), Sister of the Good Samaritan, was born on 25 January 1856 at Sodwalls, New South Wales, sixth daughter of John McLaughlin, innkeeper, and his wife Mary Clare, née Loftus, both from Ballina, Mayo, Ireland.
Mother Mary Berchmans McLaughlin As the first Australian-born Superior General of the congregation from 1898 to 1916 she oversaw an era of great expansion for the congregation, establishing thirty new foundations in four states.
Mother Mary Burchman Monument The bronze bust commemorates Anne (Mother Mary Berchmans) Daly (1860-1924), for her work as foundress of Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital and of the clinical school.
Mother Berchman- Opening the door to a saint
Mother Burchman- Women-Out-of-Their-Sphere
The Abbey of Montecassino is one of the most well known Abbeys in the world. The Abbey is perched high on the slope of the 1700 foot rocky hill known as Monte Cassino, about 80 miles southeast of Rome, Italy. The immense fortress-like complex is ensconced in thick, lush forests which shroud its lower walls. Because of the periodic destructions the abbey has endured, very little remains of the original building. Most of the massive complex dates from its reconstruction in the years after World War II. In 529 Saint Benedict chose this mountain to build a monastery that would host him and those monks following him on the way from Subiaco.
Montecassino - a hill in Italy, above the Liri Valley, between Rome and Naples. The height of 519 m above sea level At the foot of the mountain lies the town of Cassino. There is a Benedictine abbey on the top. The abbey of Monte Cassino was founded in the 6th century by St. Benedict. During the Second World War it formed a key part of the German Gustav Line. On 15 February 1944 the abbey was bombed by the Allies who wrongly believed that it was being used as a German observation post. The abbey of Monte Cassino is one of the two largest monasteries in Italy. The abbey was founded by Saint Benedict in the 6th century. The abbey made up one section of the 161 km long German Gustav Line, intended to block the Allied advance into Italy.
Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a rocky hill about 130 kilometres (80 mi) southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley, Italy, 2 kilometres (1+1⁄4 mi) west of Cassino and at an elevation of 520 m (1,710 ft). Site of the Roman town of Casinum, it is widely known for its abbey, the first house of the Benedictine Order, having been established by Benedict of Nursia himself around 529. It was for the community of Monte Cassino that the Rule of Saint Benedict was composed.
The Sisters of the Good Samaritan first arrived in Kiribati in 1991 at the invitation of local Bishop Mea. From small beginnings, there are currently two communities of Good Samaritan Sisters in Kiribati engaged in educational, pastoral and community development ministries. These include running the Good Samaritan Early Childhood Learning Centre, teaching English at the local primary school, offering pastoral care to patients at the psychiatric hospital and those in prison and supporting people with physical and intellectual disabilities.
Kiribati officially the Republic of Kiribati is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, with more than half living on Tarawa atoll. The state comprises 32 atolls and one remote raised coral island, Banaba. Its total land area is 811 km2 dispersed over 3,441,810 km2 (1,328,890 sq mi) of ocean.