S. Tommaso
Community ID: 
 
479
 
Alternate Names: 
 
S. Thomae Reatini
 
Town: 
 
Rieti
 
Diocese: 
 
Rieti
 
Region: 
 
Umbria
 
Medieval Location: 
 
near town, outside the walls, at the antique church of the male monastery of Farfa
 
Modern Location: 
 
Rieti
 
Corporate Status: 
 
Abbey
 
Date Founded: 
 
1273
 
Date Terminated: 
 
1487
 
Religious Order: 
 
Cistercian
 
Rule: 
 
Benedictine
 
Foundation Information: 
 

Founded by Giovanni, cardinal bishop of Porto e Saint Rufino as a Cistercian daughter house of the (male?) monastery of Casae novae, in 1273 (see "miscellaneous info," below).

 
Priveleges & Papal Exemptions: 
 

1292: Pope Nicholas IV gives papal exemption: census (tax) is a pound of wax for each year since the foundation stone was laid; In 1298, Pope Boniface VIII condedes certain privileges

 
Early Documents: 
 

[1] 1273: Papal letter of confirmation; [2] 1292: privileges of Pope Nicholas IV

 
Published Primary Sources: 
 

Taxa S. Cancellariae Romanae in lucem emissa et notis illustrata;
Thesaurus novus anecdotorum., vol. IV, St. XIII, a. 1273

 
Secondary Sources: 
 

Originum Cisterceinsium, vol. 1;
Vita della Beata Angelina de Corbara, p. 203

 
Miscellaneous Information: 
 

Around the same time that this community was founded, Giovanni, cardinal bishop of Porto e Saint Rufino also had a number of other communities incorporated as daughter houses of the Cistercian order (see records #S. Trinità, S. Pancrazio sulla Via Aurelia, al Gianicolo). It may be that S. Tommaso had also had an earlier existence, and the 1273 was not a foundation date, but the date of their incorporation into the Cistercian order. Needs verification.

 
Contributors: 
 
Suzanne Wemple; WRL Project
 
Date Started: 
 
1273
 
Date Finished: 
 
1487
 
Length: 
 
1113