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Dubious or Uncertain House / Site

Name: Orvieto, Sta. Caecilia

Circary at the Time: Romana, Tuscia et Calabria

Years of Activity:  Saec. 12 - Saec. 14

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Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 406)

Approximate modern location: In the town of Orvieto.

Elm-Number [See below]: None.*

Other Comments: According to tradition rather than evidence, a Parthenon, one of four immediately adjacent to each other, one of which was O.Praem., the others O.S.B.  In the 14th century these were consolidated under Dominican rule.  No trace of the buildings remain.  


*  This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.