The Church of Sant’Agostino

Hermitage of St Agostino at Monticiano

  • About thirty-five kilometers southeast of Siena rose one of the hermitages that contributed to the birth of the new Order of the Hermit Friars of Saint Augustine in Tuscany between 1244 and 1250. It was founded between 1256 and 1259 on an earlier hermitage called San Pietro a Camerata. The convent became famous for the presence of a friar, Antonio da Siena, whose life is wrapped in legends that a . . .