In Vico nel Lazio, the church (private) of San Biagio was part of the bounty of the Benedictine monks and the first news information comes from 1180.
Grancia was a granary and was also part of an agricultural complex that was supposed to support monks.
The church has a single aisle and simple furnishings with two ogival arches in stonework and a wooden coffered ceiling.
Inside there are two rare terracotta sculptures of the 1500s.
Benedictine Monks, Dominicans, Carthusians and Cistercians
The whole area of Vico has seen the succession of different types of monks. First Benedictines, with St. Benedict who passed along these paths, and with the Dominicans of Saint Dominic from Sora.
The area is also not far from the powerful Cistercian abbey of Casamari.
Then, in 1208, Pope Innocent III with a papal bull assigned what we now know as the Abbey of Trisulti to the Certosini brothers, of Piedmont origin.
This must be read in the light of the struggles between pope and empire that somehow reflected among the so-called 'white monks' and 'black monks'.
The Carthusians were definitely loyal to the pope.
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