Monday, 10 May 2021

At Saint Michael's Abbey, near to the city of Torino, Italy

 (near Torino, Italy) Dedicated to the the Archangel Michele, the Sacra di San Michele (a.k.a. Saint Michael's Abbey) is located along a route of pilgrimage (more than 2000 km, or 1250 mi. long), which runs from Mont Saint-Michel (in France) to Monte Sant’Angelo (in Puglia, Italy). The Abbey is a religious complex on Mount Pirchiriano (on the south side of the Val di Susa) in the town of Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy.

Like many of the pinnacle-top sites dedicated to the archangel Michael, the exact dates and stories of construction have been lost to time, but it dates to at least the 11th century, if not earlier. It stood abandoned from 1622-1835, but was restored in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Abbey, which for much of its history came under Benedictine rule, is now entrusted to the Roman Catholic Rosminians.



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