The Abbey of Santa Maria della Ferraria was a

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monastery located in

Vairano Patenora Vairano Patenora is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania, located about north of Naples and about northwest of Caserta. Geography Variano borders with the municipalities of Ailano, Caianello, M ...

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. Presently only ruins remain.

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It was founded in 1179 by monks from the abbey of

Fossanova Fossanova Abbey, earlier Fossa Nuova, is a church that was formerly a Cistercian abbey located near the railway-station of Priverno in Latina, Italy, about south-east of Rome. History Fossanova is one of the finest examples of early Burgundia ...

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, which had been funded by monks under the guidance of the

Abbey of Clairvaux Clairvaux Abbey (, ; la, Clara Vallis) was a Cistercian monastery in Ville-sous-la-Ferté, from Bar-sur-Aube. The original building, founded in 1115 by St. Bernard, is now in ruins; the present structure dates from 1708. Clairvaux Abbey was ...

. The church was consecrated on October 24, 1179 and the abbey was ruled by Cistercians until the suppression of religious orders in the

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Joseph Bonaparte it, Giuseppe-Napoleone Buonaparte es, José Napoleón Bonaparte , house = Bonaparte , father = Carlo Buonaparte , mother = Letizia Ramolino , birth_date = 7 January 1768 , birth_place = Corte, Corsica, Republic of ...

in 1807. The following monasteries were subservient to the abbey: Santa Maria dell'Arco (

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), Santo Spirito della Valle (

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), Santa Maria Incoronata (Apulia) and

Santi Vito e Salvo The Abbey of Santi Vito e Salvo (Italian: ''Abbazia dei Santi Vito e Salvo'') was a Cistercian monastery located in San Salvo, Province of Chieti, Italy. History It was founded in 1247 by the mother abbey Santa Maria della Ferraria in Campania, ...

(

Abruzzo Abruzzo (, , ; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Abruzzese Neapolitan, Abbrùzze , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; nap, label=Sabino dialect, Aquilano, Abbrùzzu; #History, historically Abruzzi) is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy wi ...

). Around 1228, the '' Chronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum ac de rebus in Apulia gestis'' was composed at the abbey. It is an important source on the abbey's early history.

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* *{{cite book , language=la , last=Janauschek , first=Leopold , title = Originum Cisterciensium - in quo, praemissis congregationum domiciliis adjectisque tabulis chronologico-genealogicis, veterum abbatiarum a monachis habitatarum fundationes ad fidem antiquissimorum fontium primus descripsit , publisher = Puthod , location = Vienna , date= 1877 , volume = I , page = 271 , isbn = , URL = http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00008654?jumpback=true&derivate=HisBest_derivate_00001101&rotation=0&page=4-Hist-eccl-VIII-11-2a_0354.tif&derivate=HisBest_derivate_00001101&zoom=2&x=0&y=0&tosize=screen&maximized=true&rotation=0 , accessdate = December 30, 2014

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Churches in the province of Caserta Romanesque architecture in Campania Churches completed in 1179 12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy

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