Sant’Antonio Abate is a 14th-century church and convent located in

Cascia Cascia () is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) of the Italian province of Perugia in a rather remote area of the mountainous southeastern corner of Umbria. It is about 21 km from Norcia on the road to Rieti in the Lazio (63 km). It is ...

province of Perugia The province of Perugia () is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Perugia. The province covered all of Umbria until 1927, w ...

, region of

Umbria Umbria ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region of central Italy. It includes Lake Trasimeno and Cascata delle Marmore, Marmore Falls, and is crossed by the Tiber. It is the only landlocked region on the Italian Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula. The re ...

, Italy.

History

The convent was founded by the

Benedictine order The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (, abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a mainly Christian mysticism, contemplative Christian monasticism, monastic Religious order (Catholic), order of the Catholic Church for men and f ...

, and the church was frescoed in 14th century with frescoed by a painter (or painters) known as the ''Master of the Dormition'', depicting the ''Life of St Anthony Abbot''. A second series of frescoes depicting the ''Passion of Christ'' was painted in the second half of the 15th century by Nicola da Siena. The choir has a 15th-century wooden sculpture of ''Tobias and the Angel''. On the counterfacade is an organ installed in 1630 by Luca Neri of Leonessa.Museums of Comune of Cascia

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sant'Antonio Abate, Cascia Churches in the province of Perugia 14th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy