Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombing of the Monte Cassino Abbey cheered the men up, but that, too, failed to break the stalemate, as the Germans rushed in more troops. Finally the men in Cassino stopped even hoping for relief by fresh troops. Some of them had been eating, sleeping, fighting in the same room for eight days...
...valley on the wider front near Cassino the Allies forced their way foot by foot across the icy stream. Combat engineers rushed in to build bridges and clear mines out of roads while German shells slammed blindly through their protecting smoke screen. Planes and barrages smote the Monte Cassino Abbey positions, but when infantrymen tried to press forward the Germans were still dug in on the mountain and pouring back murderous patterns of machine-gun fire. As at Anzio, the best the Allies could claim was stalemate...
...When the Abbey of Monte Cassino was bombed last week, it was not only the destruction of the 1,400-year-old religious and cultural monument that stirred the world. It was the thought that the Abbey of Monte Cassino, a unique beacon of the spirit lit at the very onset of the Dark Ages, was being demolished by the military necessities of a civilization closer to the brink than any other has been since that earlier human crisis...
...Benedict was the first to bring discipline and order to these monks. From among his disciples he formed twelve monasteries of twelve monks each (in memory of Christ and His twelve Apostles). St. Benedict lived in a 13th abbey with "a few, such as he thought would more profit and be better instructed by his presence...
When a hostile priest intrigued against him, St. Benedict and his small band of followers emigrated to Cassino. About 529 St. Benedict and his monks built the Abbey of Cassino with their own hands. The Abbey, on the summit of Monte Cassino, has been partially destroyed in four earlier wars. But St. Benedict's tower has been saved each time and incorporated into the rebuilt structures...