Blessed Leo II of Cava

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Benedictine monk. Fourteenth abbot of the monastery of Cava de Tirreni in Campania, Italy, chosen on 25 January 1268, consecrated on 5 February 1268, granted a bull of confirmation by Pope Gregory X and served for 27 years. Partipated in the Council of Lyons in 1274, and used the trip to visit the abbey of Cluny and learn from the Cluniac monks. Built a new church and new cloister at his monastery, and had many new manuscripts copied for its library.

Born

1239

Died

19 August 1295 at the Cava dei Tirreni monastery in Campania, Italy
buried before the main altar in the abbey church
relics re-interred in 1675 into a wall of the Arsicia cave, the first hermitage of the founder of Cava dei Tirreni