Monte Cassino

St. Benedict founds Monte Cassino the Benedictine Order, which is to become a very powerful force in Western Christianity, adopts manual labor as a virtuous action. 

Quickly, however, in the early Christian era of Europe and even throughout the Dark Ages, true adherents to Christian concepts ensured the enduring (though occasionally faltering) Christian force of charity. Hospitals and infirmaries arose. In the earliest Christian period these included, prominently, Eastern establishments for the cure of the sick, the Infirmary of Monte Cassino and the Hotel-Dieu at Lyons in the sixth century, the Hotel-Dieu at Paris in... 

The mother order of the Cistercians was the Benedictines, created by St Benedict at Monte Cassino in 529. People commonly called them black monks because of their black tunic and scapular. In stark contrast, the Cistercians adopted a white or grey tunic. It was an emblem of the purity fitting of their Jemsalem discoveries and they became the white monks. 

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