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Abbey of Santa Maria in Grottaferrata, Italy #29102401
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Father Nilus the Younger, also Nilus of Rossano was the founder in 1004 and the first Abbot of the famous Greek monastery of Grottaferrata, in Italy, which today is the last of the many Byzantine-Greek monasteries that had dotted Sicily, southern Italy and Rome itself in the Middle Ages. The facade of this church is characterized by a rose ââ¬â window with Arab decorations.