San Giusto Abbey, Tuscania
 Location within Italy
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| Monastery information | |
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| Order | Cistercian |
| Established | 1146 |
| Disestablished | 1460 |
| Mother house | Abbey of Fontevivo |
| Diocese | Tuscania |
| Site | |
| Location | Tuscania, Italy |
| Coordinates | 42°23′09″N 11°52′29″E / 42.38583°N 11.87472°ECoordinates: 42°23′09″N 11°52′29″E / 42.38583°N 11.87472°E |
| Public access | yes |
The Abbey of San Giusto (Italian: L’abbazia di San Giusto in Tuscania) is a former Cistercian monastery located in the valley of the river Marta approximately 4 km south of Tuscania, Province of Viterbo, Italy.
The Valle del Marta was settled in ancient times by Etruscans and Romans. The first known monastery on the site was an early medieval Benedictine monastery, mentioned in documents of the tenth century, but later abandoned. In the middle of the twelfth century, the Cistercian abbey of Fontevivo (near Parma), a daughter house of Clairvaux (France), sent a group of monks to resettle the site on July 26, 1146, a date confirmed by the later Decretals of Pope Honorius III (1216-1227). On April 2, 1178, during the abbacy of Abbot Donatus, Pope Alexander III (1159-1181) granted considerable privileges and apostolic protection to abbati monasterii Sancti Iusti prope Tuscanellam ordinis Cistercensis (“the abbot of the Cistercian monastery of San Giusto near Tuscania”). Soon after, relations between San Giusto and Fontevivo soured, and the General Chapter (assembly) of the Cistercian Order condemned the abbot of San Giusto for irregularities. The condemnation was repeated in the General Chapter of 1202, when the abbot of San Giusto was deposed because of alleged lapses in monastic discipline.
Subsequently, San Giusto was placed under the control first of the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari and second under the control of S. Anastasio Abbey at Aquas Salvias, better known as Tre Fontane Abbey, by a papal bull (1255) of Pope Alexander IV (1254-1261). San Giusto appears to have still had abbots into the fourteenth century. The abbey was permanently suppressed in 1460, after which its buildings fell into disrepair.
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