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Benedictine monk who lived around the turn of the year one thousand,
famous for his patronage of the treatment of snake bites and rabies. He
is much venerated in the Molise (Castelpizzuto, Salcito, Carovilli,
Fornelli, Civitanova del Sannio, Pescolanciano, Rocchetta
a Volturno) and on his travels he passed through our region several
times. In about 1020 he founded a monastery at San Pietro Avellana.
Alberico, the monk from Cassino, one of the biographers of San Domenico,
wrote about him: “Upon the request of father Borrello, he also
constructed in the Sangro a cenobium – which was called San Pietro
Avellana after an enormous hazel-nut tree ("avellana" in
Italian) that once stood there
– and Borrello generously endowed it with a rich donation of
lands”.
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