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Bonitus of Monte Cassino (died c. 584) was a
Benedictine The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (, abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. Initiated in 529, th ...
monk and abbot of the monastery of
Monte Cassino The Abbey of Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a Catholic Church, Catholic, Benedictines, Benedictine monastery on a rocky hill about southeast of Rome, in the Valle Latina, Latin Valley. Located on the site of the ancient ...
. During his abbacy the monastery was plundered by the
Lombards The Lombards () or Longobards () were a Germanic peoples, Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774. The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the ''History of the Lombards'' (written betwee ...
under Zotto of Benevento and Bonitus fled with his monks to the Lateran Hill in
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, dying shortly afterwards.


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*https://web.archive.org/web/20120222044521/http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0707.shtml 584 deaths Italian Benedictines Italian abbots category:Benedictine abbots Year of birth unknown 6th-century Italo-Roman people 6th-century Christian abbots {{Italy-reli-bio-stub