Baldignano
Community ID:
2296
Alternate Names:
di Baldignano
Town:
Città di Castello
Diocese:
Città di Castello
Medieval Location:
4 km. from Borgo S. Sepolcro; near a castle, hospital an church of S. Lazzaro, where the nuns took care of the female patients. Community later transferred to Borgo, Porta S. Niccolo.
Early Documents:
1266: Bishop Niccolo excommunicated all the nuns for not adhering to his precepts. When the nuns complied, he absolved them and blessed the first stone of the new monastery.
Secondary Sources:
Memorie ecclesiastiche e civili di Città di Castello, vol V, p 49-50
Contributors:
Suzanne Wemple-Kinder
Length:
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