Venerable
Bonitus of Monte Cassino
Abbot of Monte Cassino
Abbot of Monte Cassino, who led his brethren to Rome when the Lombards sacked the abbey.
- Feast
- July 7old style July 20
- Reposed
- 5826th century
- Place
- Monte Cassino
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Bonitus of Monte Cassino was the fourth abbot of the monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy, in the sixth century. During his abbacy the Lombards under Zotto of Benevento plundered and destroyed the monastery, and Bonitus fled with his monks to Rome, to the Lateran Hill.
He reposed shortly afterward, around the year 582. He is commemorated on 7 July as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.
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