Territorial Abbey of Montevergine
The Territorial Abbey of Montevergine is a Latin Church territorial abbey located in the commune of Montevergine in the ecclesiastical province of Benevento in Italy.
About 1120 William of Vercelli founded an abbey of eremitic inspiration dedicated to the Holy Virgin. It was consecrated in 1124 on Mons Sacer, so called because of the ruins of a temple of Cybele. Catherine of Valois and her son, Louis I of Naples, are buried in the abbey. The new basilica, built in 1961, is home to a 13th-century Byzantine icon of a black Madonna.
In 1926 it was established as the Territorial Abbacy of Montevergine.
Leadership
- Territorial Abbots of Montevergine
- * Abbot Riccardo Luca Guariglia, O.S.B.
- * Abbot Beda Umberto Paluzzi, O.S.B.
- * Fr. Beda Umberto Paluzzi, O.S.B.
- * Abbot Tarciscio Giovanni Nazzaro, O.S.B.
- * Abbot Francesco Pio Tamburrino
- * Abbot Tommaso Agostino Gubitosa, O.S.B.
- * Abbot Anselmo Ludovico Tranfaglia, O.S.B.
- * Abbot Giuseppe Ramiro Marcone, O.S.B.
- * Abbot Carlo [Gregorio Maria Grasso], O.S.B.
- * Abbot Vittore Corvaia, O.S.B.