St. Benedict's Cave Members of the Benedictine Community at St. Matthews may want to bookmark this page. St. Benedict's Cave St. Benedict's Cave This is where it is believed St. Benedict lived.
Today there is a monastary built around the cave.
Back to Top or Benedictine Community or Site Contents View from St. Benedict's Cave St. Benedict looked out from his cave hermitage on this beautiful scenery. The entire area around the cave looks like this. This area, around Subiaco, Italy, was the location of one of the Roman Emperor Nero's vacation villas. The only major difference between the way this area looks now and the way it looked in St. Benedict's day is that Nero had dammed the rivers, creating lakes that were used to supply water to Rome. Due to geologic activity over the centuries the dams have fallen down and nowadays the rivers flow as they did before Nero's time.