Montserrat (Monserrato), Santa Maria di

MONSERRATO (MONTSERRAT), SANTA MARIA DI

Volume VIII · p. 796 · 1952

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

MONSERRATO (MONTSERRAT), SANTA MARIA — Benedictine monastery and shrine of the Virgin, in Catalonia, on the mountain which, because of its unusual geological formation, took the name mons serratus, that is, sawed. It seems that there formerly stood there

BIBL.: AAS, 42 (1950), pp. 539–40, 603; MC, 1950, pp. 122–23 Carlo Corvo

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“MONSERRATO (MONTSERRAT), SANTA MARIA DI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII (1952), p. 796. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/monserrato-montserrat-santa-maria-di.