San Pietro Avellana

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San Pietro Avellana
Comune di San Pietro Avellana
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San Pietro Avellana
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San Pietro Avellana
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San Pietro Avellana
San Pietro Avellana (Molise)
Coordinates: 41°47′N14°10′E / 41.783°N 14.167°E / 41.783; 14.167 Coordinates: 41°47′N14°10′E / 41.783°N 14.167°E / 41.783; 14.167
Country Italy
Region Molise
Province Province of Isernia (IS)
Frazioni Masserie di Cristo
Area
[1]
  Total45.0 km2 (17.4 sq mi)
Elevation
960 m (3,150 ft)
Population
 (Dec. 2004) [2]
  Total630
  Density14/km2 (36/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Sampietresi
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
86088
Dialing code 0865
Website Official website

San Pietro Avellana is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Isernia in the Italian region of Molise, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) northwest of Campobasso and some 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Isernia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 630 and an area of 45.0 square kilometres (17.4 sq mi). [3]

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History

In 1026, Dominic of Sora established the monastery of San Pietro Avellano, at the instigation of Count Oderisio Borello, and a village began to form nearby. [4] In 1069, the monastery was ceded to Monte Cassino. The abbots fortified the village to stop its plundering by local counts. The abbey at San Pietro Avellano was abandoned after a devastating earthquake in 1441, but the village remained an ecclesiastical dependency of Monte Cassino until 1785. [5]

The municipality of San Pietro Avellana contains the frazione (subdivision) Masserie di Cristo. San Pietro Avellana borders municipalities Ateleta, Capracotta, Castel del Giudice, Castel di Sangro, Roccaraso and Vastogirardi.

Many descendants of the original San Pietro Avellana, a village with a population well over 2,000, live in the Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Youngstown areas in the United States. They have spread out all across the globe, from Rock Springs, Wyoming, to Argentina, to northern New Jersey, and back to northern Italy's Industrial Triangle. In 1906 a new shrine to Saint Amico was constructed through donations from former residents who had emigrated from San Pietro Avellano. [5]

Saint Amico

The patron saint of San Pietro Avellana is a saint whose remains rest on hillside in the woods, overlooking the village where he worked. [6] In local dialect, or dialetto sampietrese, Saint Amico is called Sand'Amig.

Two vitae are published in the Ata Sanctorum. He came of a good family of the neighborhood of Camerino, and was a secular priest in that town. Then he became a hermit and afterwards a monk, his example inducing, it is said, his father and mother, brothers and nephews also to embrace the religious life. But St Amicus found the discipline of his monastery insufficiently austere, and he again became a solitary, this time in the Abruzzi. He lived here completely alone for three years, when disciples began to gather round him. On one occasion he miraculously relieved a famine". [7]

The last years of his life were passed at the monastery at San Pietro Avellano, where he died around 1045. [5]

The shrine of Sant'Amico is referred to as Il Bosco di Sant'Amico.

This Amico should not be confused with the Cistercian Saint Amico of the Abbey of Santa Maria Rambona in the province of Macerata.

Sport

San Pietro Avellana has a soccer team called "ASD San Pietro Avellana."

Population change

San Pietro Avellana

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References

  1. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
  4. Howe, John (1997). Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Italy: Dominic of Sora and His Patrons. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 48. ISBN   0-8122-3412-X.
  5. 1 2 3 Cormack, Margaret Jean (2007). Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 60. ISBN   978-1-57003-630-9.
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  7. Butler, Alban. Lives of the Saints, vol.IV,PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .