VALVISCICOLO. — Monastery situated at the foot of Monte Corvino, almost midway between Norma and Sermoneta in the diocese of Terracina, province of Latina. It is dedicated to SS. Peter and Stephen.
The monastery, from the 17th–18th century, was inhabited by Basilian monks; later by the Templars, and after their suppression Clement V granted it to the Cistercian monks of the Abbey of V. di Carpineto, who, along with their goods and possessions, also brought the title, and the abbey previously called of Sermoneta was henceforth called of V. The Cistercians were succeeded by the Augustinians, who soon abandoned it because of the wars in 1348; in 1471, reduced to a commendam, it was assigned to Cardinal Orsini, Bishop of Frascati. In 1612 the Reformed Cistercians known as Fogliani were called there, but they abandoned it again in 1619 upon the death of the commendatory abbot Bonifacio Gaetani who had recalled them, and were replaced by the religious of St. Francis of Paola. Onorato Gaetani recalled the Cistercians in 1633, who finally took possession of it on 17 July 1635 and remained there until the suppression by Napoleon I (c. 1809). The last commendatory abbot was Filippo Gaetani, who resigned the Abbey to the Pope.
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