Roman Catholic Diocese of Monte Cassino
The Diocese of Monte Cassino( Latin:" Dioecesis Cassinensis") was a Roman Catholic diocese located in Monte Cassino, a rocky hill on the former site of the Roman town of Casinum about southeast of Rome, Italy, to the west of the town of Cassino.
In 1367, it was suppressed.
Petronax of Monte Cassino
Saint Petronax of Monte Cassino( May 1, 670 – May 6, 747), called" The Second Founder of Monte Cassino", was an Italian monk and abbot who rebuilt and repopulated the monastery of Monte Cassino, which had been destroyed by the invading Lombards in the late sixth century.
A native of Brescia, Petronax had made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint Benedict in 717 after being advised to do so by Pope Gregory II.
Monte Cassino was a ruin, but there were a few hermits who had nevertheless remained there.
Petronax was elected their superior and other recruits soon joined the monastery.
Funds to restore the monastery came from noblemen such as the duke of Beneventum.
Petronax received the monastic rule written in Benedict's own hand from Pope Zachary.
Both Saint Willibald and Saint Sturmius of Fulda were monks under Petronax.
Maotianshan Shales
The Maotianshan Shales are a series of Early Cambrian deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation, famous for their" Konservat Lagerstätten", deposits known for the exceptional preservation of fossilized organisms or traces.
The Maotianshan Shales form one of some forty Cambrian fossil locations worldwide exhibiting exquisite preservation of rarely preserved, non-mineralized soft tissue, comparable to the fossils of the Burgess Shale.
They take their name from Maotianshan Hill in Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China.
The most famous assemblage of organisms are referred to as the Chengjiang biota for the multiple scattered fossil sites in Chengjiang.
The age of the Chengjiang Lagerstätte is locally termed Qiongzhusian, a stage correlated to the late Atdabanian Stage in Siberian sequences of the middle of the Early Cambrian.
The shales date to ≤.
The shales also contain the slightly younger Guanshan biota from Malong District in Yunnan.
Second Battle of Monte Cassino order of battle February 1944
Second Battle of Monte Cassino order of battle February 1944 is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the fighting on the Winter Line in February 1944 during the period generally known as the Second Battle of Monte Cassino.
Facivermis
Facivermis( meaning" torch worm") is an enigmatic organism from the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan shales of China
Moawhango Névé
Moawhango Névé is a small névé between Mount Camelot and Monte Cassino, in the Freyberg Mountains of Antarctica.
It was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition of 1967 – 68 in association with a locality of the same name in New Zealand.
Battle of Monte Cassino order of battle January 1944
Battle of Monte Cassino order of battle January 1944 is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the fighting on the Winter Line January 1944 during the period generally known as the First Battle of Monte Cassino.
Monte Cassino
Monte Cassino( sometimes written Montecassino) is a rocky hill about southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley, Italy, to the west of the town of Cassino and altitude.
Site of the Roman town of Casinum, it is best known for its abbey, the first house of the Benedictine Order, having been established by Benedict of Nursia himself around 529.
It was for the community of Monte Cassino that the Rule of Saint Benedict was composed.
The first monastery on Monte Cassino was sacked by the invading Lombards around 570 and abandoned.
Of the first monastery almost nothing is known.
The second monastery was established by Petronax of Brescia around 718, at the suggestion of Pope Gregory II and with the support of the Lombard Duke Romuald II of Benevento.
It was directly subject to the pope and many monasteries in Italy were under its authority.
In 883 the monastery was sacked by Saracens and abandoned again.
The community of monks resided first at Teano and then from 914 at Capua before the monastery was rebuilt in 949.
During the period of exile, the Cluniac Reforms were introduced into the community.
The 11th and 12th centuries were the abbey's golden age.
It acquired a large secular territory around Monte Cassino, the so- called" Terra Sancti BenedictiLand of Saint Benedict"), which it heavily fortified with castles.
It maintained good relations with the Eastern Church, even receiving patronage from Byzantine emperors.
It encouraged fine art and craftsmanship by employing Byzantine and even Saracen artisans.
In 1057, Pope Victor II recognised the abbot of Monte Cassino as having precedence over all other abbots.
Many monks rose to become bishops and cardinals, and three popes were drawn from the abbey: Stephen IX( 1057 – 58), Victor III( 1086 – 87) and Gelasius II( 1118 –19).
During this period the monastery's chronicle was written by two of its own, Cardinal Leo of Ostia and Peter the Deacon( who also compiled the cartulary).
By the 13th century, the monastery's decline had set in.
In 1239, the Emperor Frederick II garrisoned troops in it during his war with the Papacy.
In 1322, Pope John XXII elevated the abbey into a bishopric but this was suppressed in 1367.
The buildings were destroyed by an earthquake in 1349, and in 1369 Pope Urban V demanded a contribution from all Benedictine monasteries to fund the rebuilding.
In 1454 the abbey was placed" in commendam" and in 1504 was made subject to the Abbey of Santa Giustina in Padua.
In 1799, Monte Cassino was sacked again by French troops during the French Revolutionary Wars.
The abbey was dissolved by the Italian government in 1866.
The building became a national monument with the monks as custodians of its treasures.
In 1944 during World War II it was the site of the Battle of Monte Cassino and the building was destroyed by Allied bombing.
It was rebuilt after the war.
After the reforms of the Second Vatican Council the monastery was one of the few remaining territorial abbeys within the Catholic Church.
On 23 October 2014, Pope Francis applied the norms of the" motu proprioEcclesia Catholica" of Paul VI( 1976) to the abbey, removing from its jurisdiction all 53 parishes and reducing its spiritual jurisdiction to the abbey itself — while retaining its status as a territorial abbey.
The former territory of the Abbey, except the land on which the abbey church and monastery sit, was transferred to the diocese of Sora -Cassino- Aquino- Pontecorvo.
Monte Cairo
Monte Cairo( 1,669 m) is a mountain in Lazio( in the province of Frosinone), overshadowing both the Abbey and the town of Monte Cassino, 5 kilometres to the south.
The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino
Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino( The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino) is one of the best- known Polish military songs of World War II.
It was composed in May 1944 in Italy, during the Battle of Monte Cassino, on the eve of the Polish Army's capture of the German stronghold.

Question: Are Maotianshan Shales and Monte Cassino located in the same country?
Answer: no